Blastwave

I did some reading in the lib/Makefile where it mentions a DESTDIR and that seems to work. I really don't know what the testsuite is doing so I don't know...

Why not just have a configure script the SAME as every other thing on the planet like GCC and binutils and grep and fifty other popular projects.

Same problem on Oracle Solaris 11.3 where the "libtool" mess creates a command line with double pipes in it. I can manually do what is needed in the src directory...

Just checked 2.6.3 and 2.6.2 and even 2.6.1 all fail in the same manner. However 2.6.1 is slightly different : ../src/stage1flex -o stage1scan.c stage1scan.l stage1flex: can't open stage1scan.l gmake[2]: ***...

I have not tried the dev "master" alpha beta code at all. I was just trying the release versions. I guess I could clone the master and then fight with...

> This path looks sketchy: `flex-2.6.4_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001`. > Could you rename the directory to just `flex` and try again? How would that matter in the least? The tarball is extracted and...

What is this thing? lerr( _( "can't open %s: %s" ), file, strerror(errno)); ? An underscore in front of a string literal? see https://github.com/westes/flex/pull/305/commits/40798aaaf36f7e1cb974e55253bf6bd12732afa8

Sorry .. I get a pile of errors dealing with configure.ac. I guess I have to manually patch 2.6.4.

Well the situation is getting worse here : "yylex.c", line 154: warning: implicit function declaration: isascii (E_NO_IMPLICIT_DECL_ALLOWED) /bin/bash ../build-aux/ylwrap scan.l lex.yy.c scan.c -- lex "/usr/local/build/flex-2.6.4_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001/src/scan.l":line 124: Error: missing translation value...

building against the master branch? Yes I did. There is no configure script and the autoconf/reconf process fails with numerous errors. This should be release grade software. It was. Years...