From: Jeroen Akershoek (jeroena_at_sara.nl)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 01:44:46 CDT

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:06:33 -0500
"John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

I just downloaded the packages of flex 2.5.4a and installed that. Seems to work now *cheer* :)

Regards,
 Jeroen

>
> Hi guys,
> I'm swamped until later this week. The longer-term solution to
> avoiding issues with broken implementations of Flex/Bison, Lex/Yacc will
> be for me to put pregenerated files into our CVS tree like I do for the
> Windows builds. That will eliminate the need for the general user community
> to have a working Lex/Yacc Flex/Bison installed. I can probably get this done
> later this week after our NIH advisory board meeting is concluded.
>
> Thanks,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:37:28AM -0700, Brian Bennion wrote:
> > Hi Jereon,
> >
> > unless someone else has a better idea I think the bison/flex combo is not
> > working anymore where vmd is concerned.
> >
> > Try getting an older version of bison and using it. The vmd developers use
> > 1.28 at least as of friday the did...
> >
> > Alternatively Eamon or I could give you the three source files in question
> > and bypass this whole mess for awhile.
> >
> > What do you think Eamon?
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jeroen Akershoek wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:06:33 -0700 (PDT)
> > > "Brian Bennion" <brian_at_youkai.llnl.gov> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello Jeroen,
> > > >
> > > > What version of linux are you using? Is it a redhat 8 or 9 distro?
> > >
> > > Debian/GNU testing distro, gcc version 3.3.1
> > >
> > > > What version is your bison? (ie >>bison -V)
> > > bison (GNU Bison) 1.875a
> > >
> > > > What version is you flex?
> > > flex 2.5.31
> > >
> > >
> > > It looks very much like it's missing some include file (missing -I perhaps), but I can't figure out which one
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jeroen
> > >
> > >
> >
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