Re: [vile] bug #24158: undefined reference to `filter_def' - still in 9.7x

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Brendan O'Dea wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Chris G <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Building vile 9.7x on xubuntu 9.10 (to replace the default 9.7s) I get
> > bug #24158. ?No errors reported in ./configure but it doesn't compile.
>
> The issue is that autoconf resolves LEX to : if none is installed.
> This is only a reasonable fallback when the generated .c files are a)
> shipped, b) have the correct timestamp and c) $LEX is not invoked with
> > address@hidden  Attached is a patch which removing the : default.  This causes
> "./configure && make" to succeed with no lex/flex, but lex filters
> will be omitted.

thanks (I'm near the end of an xterm patch, will revisit vile soon...)

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