From: Max T. W. <max...@ve...> - 2005-06-07 06:13:30
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Progress report: I'm giving up on 'flex' out of SourceForge for the moment and going back the Cygwin kit. The problem is that the newer versions of 'flex' require a working 'flex' to build. The Cygwin version is ancient 2.5.4a vs 2.5.31 for the latest on SourceForge, but it does NOT require an extant 'flex'. What is a real joker is that the EARLIEST version of 'flex' on SourceForge is 2.5.5b! I'll go with the Cygwin kit for now, but if someone drops me a link to a CVS repository that contains 4a, I'll try it. Otherwise that search goes on the 'maybe later, maybe never' list. With a working 'flex' I've built the descriptors for all the rest of the packages in the MSYS-1.0.11 kit (a.k.a -D '2004-04-30 18:55' from CVS). I've put all of them in the package build list and will turn the machine loose tonight to find where things do not work. I know 'tar' at least will go belly up since I haven't done 'bison' from scratch yet. A note on 'flex' for those who want to duplicate this effort (and I think I've said this before, so please forgive me if I'm repeating myself) -- it has to be built in its own source tree. It looks like it should build in a side directory like most packages, but it blows up if you try it. Current successful build list -- cw-flex msys-bash msys-m4 msys-texinfo msys-base msys-less msys-termcap sf-byacc (That's bash 2.04 fyi.) |