From ac88e4435f3217062ab5c0a1eb9af426f072a9fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 19:48:02 +0000
Subject: Update to vim-8.0.069. Update to tzdata-2016i. Update to file-5.29.
 Update to flex-2.6.2. Update to linux-4.8.6. Update to util-linux-2.29.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11142 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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 chapter06/flex.xml | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter06')

diff --git a/chapter06/flex.xml b/chapter06/flex.xml
index 2d0f80cdd..a3db70301 100644
--- a/chapter06/flex.xml
+++ b/chapter06/flex.xml
@@ -41,9 +41,13 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Flex</title>
 
-    <para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
+    <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>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/flex-&flex-version;</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">HELP2MAN=/tools/bin/true \
+./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/flex-&flex-version;</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
@@ -53,6 +57,8 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>There is one known test failure.</para>
+
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
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