Re: Problem Building DDD

[Steven Bernard]

Thank You for the advice.  I installed the flex package and everything works 
fine and
I am able to run ddd.

Thank You both for your time
Steven Bernard

Tim Mooney wrote:

> In regard to: Re: Problem Building DDD, Andreas Zeller said (at 9:56am on...:
>
> >Hi!
> >
> >Tim Mooney <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> In regard to: Problem Building DDD, Steven Bernard said (at 4:53pm on 
> >> Mar...:
> >>
> >> >            ./configure: flex: command not found [...]
> >>
> >> The problem is that you have neither lex nor flex installed, and ddd's
> >> build process requires one or the other.
> >
> >Normally, DDD source distributions come with precompiled flex input,
> >such that a `flex' or `lex' invocation should not be required.  May I
> >ask which version of `make' you are using?
>
> Thanks for the clarification Andreas.  I thought that should be the case --
> it wouldn't be required.  However, Steven is never getting to the point
> where make is invoked -- this is only during configure.  He's getting
> a fatal error from some place in configure, because configure can't
> figure out where lex/flex is generating its output.  That's because lex/flex
> *aren't* generating any output:
>
> >            checking lex output file root... ./configure: lex: command not 
> > found
> >            configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up
> >            configure: error: ./configure failed for ddd
>
> Looking at the configure.in test, I'm puzzled why the
>
>         missing flex
>
> command was not run, to warn that he's missing flex/lex.  Something seems
> to not be working as intended.  In any case, it's configure that stopping
> him, not a faulty make.
>
> Tim
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