Re: [Scribia-dev] OSX

[Lark <lar...@ya...>]

>>Alternatively, build the scanner on the command line under X. It
>>should be as simple as typing "flex Scribia.l". Let me know whether
>>this works please.
>
>Nope -
>
>[localhost:Scribia/scribia/Source] ben% flex Scribia.l
>
>"Scribia.l", line 1: unrecognized %option:
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: %
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: o
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: p
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: t
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: i
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: o
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: n
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: "Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: 8
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: b
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: i
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: t
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character:
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: %
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: o
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: p
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: t
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: i
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: o
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: n
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: "Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: n
>"Scribia.l", line 1: bad character: e
>-snip-... it goes on like that...

Hm. Could you figure out what version of flex you are running? I 
built it fine under FreeBSD:

# flex -p -v Scribia.l
Variable trailing context rule at line 1225
Variable trailing context rule at line 1487
Variable trailing context rule at line 1536
Variable trailing context rule at line 1537
Variable trailing context rules entail a large performance penalty
flex version 2.5.4 usage statistics:
   scanner options: -ipsvB8 -Cemr
   12251/13000 NFA states
   7577/8000 DFA states (166619 words)
   301 rules
   Compressed tables always back-up
   85/120 start conditions
   3079 epsilon states, 1438 double epsilon states
   16/100 character classes needed 213/500 words of storage, 321 reused
   170733 state/nextstate pairs created
   23056/147677 unique/duplicate transitions
   7707/8000 base-def entries created
   18724/20000 (peak 24492) nxt-chk entries created
   1300/7500 (peak 7020) template nxt-chk entries created
   0 empty table entries
   191 protos created
   130 templates created, 3937 uses
   54/256 equivalence classes created
   10/256 meta-equivalence classes created
   3 (111 saved) hash collisions, 15650 DFAs equal
   34 sets of reallocations needed
   53172 total table entries needed

Another thing might be if your line endings aren't correct. Does 
MacOS X use CR, LF, or both? Is it different from Classic?
-- 
Lark <lar...@ya...>