Installing ORBit on Solaris 8

[David Starks-Browning <starksb ebi ac uk>]

On Wednesday 2 May 01, Steve Wong writes:
> 
> 	Have anyone encountered that and know how to solve it??
> 	I am currently compiling ORBit 0.5.7 on Solaris 8.
> 	When I run configure, it finishes successfully but with the following
> WARNING.
> 
> Flex installed: no
> 
>  -----------------------------------------------------------
>     WARNING: flex was not found.  Either use the lexer.c
>     that comes with the official distribution or install
>     flex if you want to regenerate lexer.c from lexer.l.
>  -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ...
> 
> I have installed GNU make 3.79.1
> 		GNU glib-1.2.10
> 		flex-2.5.4a
> 		index-2.2.5
> 
> It is strange that I have installed flex but the configure said no.
> So I doubt that the compilation failure is due to this.

Did you remove config.cache after you installed flex before re-running
configure?  If that's not the problem, are you sure flex is installed
properly and is in your path?  Study config.log for details on what
went wrong when configure checked for flex.

I also did not have flex, on Solaris 7, but after installing flex,
ORBit-0.5.7 built fine.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
David

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