On Feb 28, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've received tons of bug reports about failures during the build
> phase of a2ps, people complaining of my requiring yacc, lex, msg*
> etc.  I did not require it, everything was shipped.

IIRC, the problem is that automake 1.4's AM_PROG_LEX would bail out if
it couldn't find flex or lex because of excess quoting I introduced
:-(

The CVS version correctly sets up LEX='missing lex', instead of
failing.

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