Am Sonntag, 23. November 2014, 16:46:07 schrieb Darshit Shah: > I've often seen people asking for help compiling Wget because a file, css.c > cannot be found. This occurs because Flex is required to generate that file. > However, configure does not attempt to check if flex is installed on the > system. > > I believe that even if a dependency is documented in the README files, the > configure script **MUST** check for it before continuing. Hence, I'd like to > push this patch which checks for the existence of flex before continuing.
Good idea (a wasn't even aware of that missing check). But why not simply using AC_PROG_LEX ? See https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Particular-Programs.html Tim
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