binutils-2.15 requires flex/lex?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:00:16AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> trying to build the original binutils-2.15-tarball on a system without
> having flex nor lex installed, causes this build error:
> 
> /usr/src/rpm/BUILD/rtems-4.7-sh-rtems4.7-binutils-2.15/binutils-2.15/ld/configure: line 4417: flex: command not found
> checking for flex... lex
> checking for yywrap in -ll... no
> checking lex output file root...
> /usr/src/rpm/BUILD/rtems-4.7-sh-rtems4.7-binutils-2.15/binutils-2.15/ld/configure: line 4505:
> configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up
> make: *** [configure-ld] Error 1

Please re-run this with sh -x.  I can't see how that happened; what
should have happened was "checking for flex... no".

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz