From bug-request at octave dot org Sat Jan  8 21:27:42 2005
Subject: Problems with flex.
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Nick Longo <nmichalo at math dot uchicago dot edu>
Cc: bugs at octave dot org
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:14:00 -0500

On  7-Jan-2005, Nick Longo <nmichalo at math dot uchicago dot edu> wrote:

|      I recently tried to get the cvs version of octave, and compile
|      it (On an dell laptop running fedora core 3).  When I tried to run
|      make I got an error that flex didn't recognize line 217 of gplot.l
|      which simply contained "{UNOP} { ".  So, keeping with the warnings
|      outputed when I started to make, I downloaded flex 2.5.4a from
|      ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/ still no luck.  According to fedora I am
|      running flex 2.5.4.  Any ideas would be helpful.

I think flex 2.5.4 is quite old.  I see that on my system, I have
2.5.31 now.  Version numbers are not usually decimal fractions, but a
series of integers separated by periods.

jwe



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