Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
Flex was not my only problem. It might have had other problem by
itself, but everything was affected!
