Gump and OS X (10.3)

[Christian Schulte]

Great that you solved your problem, but just some clarification: flex is
_always_ gnu. The other guy is called lex (flex is a better lex, same as
bison is a better yacc).

Christian

"Simon Beaumont" <simon.beaumont at mac.com> wrote in message
news:0001HW.BC3D341A000BE719F02845B0 at news.mozart-oz.org...
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:50:27 +0000, Simon Beaumont wrote
> (in message <0001HW.BC3C2D5E0002BBB2F02845B0 at news.mozart-oz.org>):
>
> > Hi I've just tried to create a scanner with the example (or a close
version)
>
> But not close enough - I think I'm suffering from too much syntax
syndrome!
>
> > and the version of flex that is the platform default on OS X 10.3 won't
> > swallow the spec. the flex version is 2.5.4 - but I suspect it's not the
gnu
> > one - should I get gnu flex (bison is GNU bison version 1.28).
>
> Thers is of course no such beast - flex is non-gnu and the version is
fine -
> the mistake was a wee typo in a regular expression.
>
> It all works beautifully well now - took me an hour to fix though - flex's
> diagnositics are not very informative. Which is a bit ironic.
>
> Simon
>
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