Re: ORbit 0.3.0 ./configure error

[Christopher Barry <cbarry 2xtreme net>]

Heh heh, I just took care of this 1/2 an hour ago, because I decided to
do everything from scratch via cvs. I'm using debian and did a search
for 'flex' and found that I needed bison or something compatible. I
grabbed the bison package and it worked.

"Ramón A. Santini" wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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