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Section 5 - Building the Base System Tools

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Flex 64-bit

Name: Flex 64-bit
Summary: The fast lexer
License: BSD-3-Clause
Version: 2.6.4
URL: https://github.com/westes/flex/releases/download/v2.6.4/flex-2.6.4.tar.gz

Average Build Time: 0.1 SBU
Used Install Space: 33 MiB

Configuration

To configure Flex 64-bit for install into the build root, run the following command:

./configure --prefix=/usr                      \
            --libdir=/usr/lib64                \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib64            \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/flex-2.6.4 \
            --disable-static

Compilation and Installation

To compile Flex 64-bit, run the following command:

make

Next, run the test suite:

make check

Finally, to install Flex 64-bit into the build tree, run the following command:

make install
rm -fv /usr/lib64/libfl.la
ln -sv flex   /usr/bin/lex
ln -sv flex.1 /usr/share/man/man1/lex.1

NOTE: Do not delete the unpacked sources

Contents

Contents
Installed Programs	flex, flex++ (link to flex), and lex (link to flex)
Installed Libraries	libfl.so
Installed Directories	/usr/share/doc/flex-2.6.4

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