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-<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
-
-<sect2>
-<title>Installation of Flex</title>
-
-<para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
-
-<para>Compile the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-
-<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
-checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the
-following command will do so:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>make bigcheck</userinput></screen>
-
-<para>And install the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
-
-<para>There are some packages that expect to find the Lex library in
-<filename>/usr/lib</filename>. Create a symlink to account for this:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>ln -s libfl.a /usr/lib/libl.a</userinput></screen>
-
-<para>A few programs don't know about <userinput>flex</userinput> yet and try
-to run its predecessor <userinput>lex</userinput>. To support those programs,
-create a shell script named <filename>lex</filename> that calls
-<userinput>flex</userinput> in Lex emulation mode:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/bin/lex &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
-#!/bin/sh
-# Begin /usr/bin/lex
-
-exec /usr/bin/flex -l "$@"
-
-# End /usr/bin/lex
-<userinput>EOF
-chmod 755 /usr/bin/lex</userinput></screen>
-
-</sect2>
-