Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

[Harold L Hunt II]

Fergus,

This is a general Cygwin question, not a Cygwin/XFree86 question.  It 
should have been sent to cygwin@cygwin.com, not cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com.

However, I happen to know the answer you want to hear.  The problem is 
that 'flex' 2.5.31-1 sucks; it can't build anything in the XFree86 tree. 
  Something is horribly wrong with it, but I don't care to get involved 
in fixing it.  As such, I have upgraded flex to the 'test' version 
2.5.4-2.  You can do this in Cygwin's setup.exe, but you have to keep 
manually reselecting that version each time you run setup.exe because it 
will always try to replace it with the 'curr' 2.5.31-1 version.

Good luck, I hope that helps,

Harold

fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
> A configure / make /make install that has been working successfully oob for
> a long time recently failed. the relevant .tgz is unaltered, only Cygwin has
> changed. Does the following output from make, throw any light on this? The
> configure worked fine. I attach cygcheck.out.
> Fergus
> 
> ~/tmp/grap-1.30> make
> grep "^#" grap.y > grap.cc ; grep "^#" grap_lex.l > grap_lex.cc; touch
> y.tab.h
> g++ -MM -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H grap.cc grap_lex.cc *.cc >> .depend;
> rm -f grap.cc grap_lex.cc y.tab.h
> bison -y -d grap.y
> mv y.tab.c grap.cc
> g++ -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -c -o grap.o grap.cc
> flex -ograp_lex.cc grap_lex.l
> g++ -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wno-unused -c grap_lex.cc
> grap_lex.l: In function `void expand_macro(macro*)':
> grap_lex.l:979: error: `yytext_ptr' undeclared (first use this function)
> grap_lex.l:979: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for
> each function it appears in.)
> grap_lex.l: In function `bool is_macro(const std::string&)':
> grap_lex.l:990: error: parse error before `--' token
> grap_lex.l: At global scope:
> grap_lex.l:996: error: parse error before `]' token
> make: *** [grap_lex.o] Error 1
> ~/tmp/grap-1.30>