[Flex-devel] Dumb question about building CVS flex

[Dustin L. <du...@la...>]

I'm trying to get up to speed with CVS flex, and am not sure if I've
done things wrong through sheer ignorance of autotools.  I checked out
flex like this:

    $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@fl...:/cvsroot/flex co -P flex

and then ran 'aclocal' in the flex directory thus created.  This
produced some warnings:

---
/usr/share/aclocal/wxwin.m4:36: warning: underquoted definition of
AM_OPTIONS_WXCONFIG
  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
  or see
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
/usr/share/aclocal/wxwin.m4:59: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_WXCONFIG
/usr/share/aclocal/linc.m4:1: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_LINC
----

do they indicate that I did something wrong, or should I ignore them?

Continuing, I *did* ignore them and ran autoconf, then automake.
Automake complained about missing files, and to satisfy it I had to copy
the following files from the last release (2.5.33):

install-sh
missing
doc/mdate-sh
config.guess
config.sub
INSTALL
conf.in
ABOUT-NLS
depcomp

after which it ran without errors.  To get configure to run I also had
to copy

po/Makefile.in.in
po/remove-potcdate.sin

from the last release.  After doing all that, the build completed
without errors and the flex executable was created.  It was able to
report it's version, but I haven't tried it otherwise yet.

So my question is, what did I do wrong and what should I have done?

This is running on Gentoo Linux on x86.

Dustin