LEXLIB

[Christer Solskogen]

On 30.10.2014 13:03, Nicholas Clifton wrote:
> Hi Christer,
>
>> I see that if libfl.a or libfl.so is found, binutils links to it.
>> But I haven't found of why binutils wants that library. What does
>> binutils want with it?
>
> Quite a few programs in the binutils suite use flex.  The linker uses it
> to parse link scripts.  Some ports of gas use it to parse assembler
> source code.  The archiver (ar) uses it to MRI scripts, and so on.
>

Thanks!