Everything
php
Learn Community Releases The PHP Project
Home » Project » Newsgroups » php.internals » flex.skl problem? »

flex.skl problem?

php.internals

Unnamed Person

22 years ago
I'm trying to compile PHP from cvs, but it barfs while trying to generate zend_language_scanner.c from zend_language_scanner.l. The problem is in the specified skeleton file: flex.skl, and it seems to be dying near the beginning on the first '%-' line. I can't find any reference in the flex grammar documentation that even discusses such a line, so I don't know what it's supposed to do. I'm using flex version 2.5.31 Suggestions? Thanks, Derrell

Derick Rethans

22 years ago
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com wrote:
> I'm trying to compile PHP from cvs, but it barfs while trying to generate > zend_language_scanner.c from zend_language_scanner.l. The problem is in the > specified skeleton file: flex.skl, and it seems to be dying near the beginning > on the first '%-' line. I can't find any reference in the flex grammar > documentation that even discusses such a line, so I don't know what it's > supposed to do. > > I'm using flex version 2.5.31
Don't do that, we only support 2.5.4 (the flex people modified some internal stuff which is incompatible with our skeleton file). regards, Derick
-- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org

Unnamed Person

22 years ago
Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> writes:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com wrote: > >> I'm trying to compile PHP from cvs, but it barfs while trying to generate >> zend_language_scanner.c from zend_language_scanner.l. The problem is in the >> specified skeleton file: flex.skl, and it seems to be dying near the beginning >> on the first '%-' line. I can't find any reference in the flex grammar >> documentation that even discusses such a line, so I don't know what it's >> supposed to do. >> >> I'm using flex version 2.5.31 > > Don't do that, we only support 2.5.4 (the flex people modified some > internal stuff which is incompatible with our skeleton file).
Yuck! That seems kind of nasty to have to downgrade an application. (I'm tracking Debian unstable.) Any chance that the flex-generated C files could be distributed in cvs and the Makefile modified to not try to generate them from the flex input? Better yet, what's involved in modifying the skeleton file to work with an up-to-date flex? I might give it a go if it's not something requiring a total rewrite... Derrell

Derick Rethans

22 years ago
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com wrote:
> Yuck! That seems kind of nasty to have to downgrade an application. (I'm > tracking Debian unstable.)
apt-get install flex-old
> Any chance that the flex-generated C files could > be distributed in cvs and the Makefile modified to not try to generate them > from the flex input?
Those files are in the snapshots, you can use those just fine. If you want to compile from CVS you need a good flex.
> Better yet, what's involved in modifying the skeleton > file to work with an up-to-date flex? I might give it a go if it's not > something requiring a total rewrite...
No idea, you'll have to find our for yourself. Derick
-- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org