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authorWill Estes <wlestes@users.sourceforge.net>2007-03-07 21:20:35 +0000
committerWill Estes <wlestes@users.sourceforge.net>2007-03-07 21:20:35 +0000
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parent11c30373318adce759fa0401bb097d48af50d109 (diff)
more changes describing building flex from cvs
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@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ not for you.
When you get a distribution of flex, a large number of intermediate
files needed to make building flex easy are included. You don't have
-that in a cvs snapshot.
+that in the cvs tree.
You will need various external tools in order to build the distribution. Here is
-a (possibly incomplete) list of the required tools. Always get the latest
+a (hopefully complete and correct) list of the required tools. Always get the latest
version of each tool; we list the versions used in development of
flex, but the listed versions may not work for you.
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ bash or some other fairly robust sh-style shell
GNU bison; to generate parse.c from parse.y
GNU m4 1.4; required by GNU autoconf (yes, it *must* be GNU m4)
GNU autoconf 2.59 and GNU automake 1.9.6; for generating Makefiles etc.
-GNU gettext 0.11.5; for i18n
+GNU gettext 0.14.5; for i18n
flex (latest beta release); for bootstrap of scan.l
-help2man 1.27; to generate man page
+help2man 1.36; to generate the flex man page
tar, gzip, etc.; for packaging of the source distribution
GNU texinfo 4.8; to build and test the flex manual
perl; GNU automake and GNU autoconf now depend on perl to run