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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
- <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
- %general-entities;
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="ch-system-flex" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="flex.html"?>
-
- <sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>flex</productname>
- <productnumber>&flex-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&flex-url;</address>
- </sect1info>
-
- <title>Flex-&flex-version;</title>
-
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-flex">
- <primary sortas="a-Flex">Flex</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <sect2 role="package">
- <title/>
-
- <para>The Flex package contains a utility for generating programs that
- recognize patterns in text.</para>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
- <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>&flex-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&flex-ch6-du;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of Flex</title>
-
-<!--
- <para>First, fix a problem introduced with glibc-2.26:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i "/math.h/a #include &lt;malloc.h&gt;" src/flexdef.h</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>The build procedure assumes the <application>help2man</application>
- program is available to create a man page from the executable - -help option.
- This is not present, so we use an environment variable to skip this process.
- Now, prepare Flex for compilation:</para> -->
-
- <para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
-
-<!-- <screen><userinput remap="configure">HELP2MAN=/tools/bin/true \ -->
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/flex-&flex-version;</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Compile the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>To test the results (about 0.5 SBU), issue:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Install the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>A few programs do not know about <command>flex</command> yet and
- try to run its predecessor, <command>lex</command>. To support those
- programs, create a symbolic link named <filename>lex</filename> that
- runs <filename>flex</filename> in <command>lex</command> emulation
- mode:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sv flex /usr/bin/lex</userinput></screen>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="contents-flex" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Flex</title>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>flex, flex++ (link to flex), and lex (link to flex)</seg>
- <seg>libfl.so</seg>
- <seg>/usr/share/doc/flex-&flex-version;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
- <varlistentry id="flex">
- <term><command>flex</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A tool for generating programs that recognize patterns in text;
- it allows for the versatility to specify the rules for pattern-finding,
- eradicating the need to develop a specialized program</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-flex flex">
- <primary sortas="b-flex">flex</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="flexpp">
- <term><command>flex++</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>An extension of flex, is used for generating C++ code
- and classes. It is a symbolic link to <command>flex</command></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-flex flexpp">
- <primary sortas="b-flex++">flex++</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="lex">
- <term><command>lex</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A symbolic link that runs <command>flex</command> in
- <command>lex</command> emulation mode</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-flex lex">
- <primary sortas="b-lex">lex</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="libfl">
- <term><filename class="libraryfile">libfl</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <filename class="libraryfile">flex</filename> library</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-flex libfl">
- <primary sortas="c-libfl">libfl</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </sect2>
-
-</sect1>