ORbit 0.3.0 ./configure error

["Ramón A. Santini" <RamonSantini csi com>]

I am trying to install gnome 0.3.0 but ORBit does not want to cooperate.

When I try to compile ORBit starting with ./configure it runs through the
checklist and then chokes on the following:

checking for flex... no
checking for lex... no
./configure: flex: command not found
checking for flex... lex
checking for yywrap in -ll... no
checking lex output file root... ./configure: lex: command not found
configure: error: cannot find output from lex: giving up

The config.log reads:
 
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:627: checking for a BSD compatible install
configure:680: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:737: checking whether make sets ${MAKE}
configure:776: checking for working aclocal
configure:789: checking for working autoconf
configure:802: checking for working automake
configure:815: checking for working autoheader
configure:828: checking for working makeinfo
configure:895: checking host system type
configure:918: checking for ranlib
configure:947: checking for gcc
configure:1024: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works
configure:1038: gcc -o conftest    conftest.c  1>&5
configure:1058: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler
configure:1063: checking whether we are using GNU C
configure:1072: gcc -E conftest.c
configure:1087: checking whether gcc accepts -g
configure:1127: checking for ld used by GCC
configure:1184: checking if the linker (/usr/i486-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld
GNU ld version 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1.0.4)
configure:1200: checking for BSD-compatible nm
configure:1237: checking whether ln -s works
configure:1304: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of
Makefiles
configure:1325: checking for gcc
configure:1402: checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) works
configure:1416: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c  1>&5
configure:1436: checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) is a
cross-compiler
configure:1441: checking whether we are using GNU C
configure:1465: checking whether gcc accepts -g
configure:1503: checking for a BSD compatible install
configure:1566: checking for indent
configure:1651: checking for glib-config
configure:1682: checking for GLIB - version >= 0.99.7
configure:1781: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include
-I/usr/local/include   conftest.c  -L/usr/local/lib  -lglib 1>&5
configure:1879: checking for bison
configure:1909: checking how to run the C preprocessor
configure:1930: gcc -E  conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
configure:1975: checking for flex
configure:1975: checking for lex
configure:2007: checking for flex
configure:2040: checking for yywrap in -ll
configure:2059: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -ll   1>&5
/usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -ll: No such file or directory
configure: failed program was:
#line 2048 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
char yywrap();

int main() {
yywrap()
; return 0; }
configure:2082: checking lex output file root


Any ideas?

Ramón A. Santini