breyfogle <breyfogle@aol.com> wrote:
> There is actually quite an extensive e-trail for this same problem
> dating back several years that seems to implicate something about
> HP's ia64 lex implementation. One thread I found was typical:

> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutil.../msg00337.html

> Unfortunately, I have not found any hint of a solution.

It sounds like their workaround was listed there:

I worked around the problem by nulling out LEXLIB before
running configure:

export LEXLIB=" "
/.../.../configure ...
make
make install

This causes the configure script to skip the test for LEXLIB
and just use a blank value rather than the normal value of "-ll".

'ar' and the other binutils programs don't actually need "-ll",
because they carefully define their own yywrap().

Did that have any effect in your situation?

> Building GNU flex might work but that also requires GNU Bison and
> maybe gcc, gmake etc....

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/flex-2.5.4a/

shows an 11.23 Itanium2 version, with _runtime_ dependency on bison:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/bison-2.3/

which shows no other run-time dependencies. They both show a
build-time dependency on make:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/make-3.81/

all of which seem to be ports from 2006.

rick jones
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