flex - Fast lexical analyzer generator HOWTO

ChangeLog


2017-05-24	- 2.5.37 -> 2.6.4
		- Changed home page link from flex.sourceforge.net to
		  https://github.com/westes/flex
		- Updated Slackware package list for 14.1 and 14.2,
		  removed older than 13.37
		- Added ldconfig after 'make install'
		- At the bottom, also remove flex.mo files under
		  /usr/share/locale - useful if you don't use --disable-nls
2013/03/12	- 2.5.35 -> 2.5.37
		- Updated Slackware note for 13.0 through 14.0, removed
		  older
		- Use docdir, mandir, infodir to get them in to Slackware
		  locations (/usr/*) instead of the default (/usr/share/*)
2008/04/11	- 2.5.34 -> 2.5.35
2008/02/11	- 2.5.33 -> 2.5.34
		- Removed 2.5.31
		- Removed 2.5.27 - it's not there any more
		- Make sure non-root account can remove source later
		- Removed gawk, grep links (now at the top)
		- Updated Slackware note for 11.0 and 12.0
		- Changed download URL from download.sf.net to
		  downloads.sf.net (uses a mirror)
Apr 4, 2006	- Added 2.5.33
		- Changed home page URL from lex.sf.net to flex.sf.net
		- Fixed download URL
		- Updated Slackware note for 10.2
		- Only run removepkg if it exists
Jun 6, 2005	- Updated note about versions that come with Slackware
		- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
		- root.root -> root:root, only run when $UID = 0
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Rearranged options to shut up the new version of find
Dec 21, 2004	- Added note about versions that come with Slackware
		- Added a few more (obvious) prerequisite links
Feb 3, 2004	- Added a note to the bottom of version to 2.5.31 to skip to
		  the bottom to create the /usr/bin/lex script (I installed
		  lex 2.5.31 and forgot about that part)
Sep 25, 2003	- Create a /usr/bin/lex script at the bottom that takes
		  care of some things that just run lex instead of looking
		  for flex with autoconf
Sep 9, 2003	- Added prerequisites
Aug 27, 2003	- Create ~/installed with mode 700
		- Added note about why 2.4.27 and 2.4.31 are there
Apr 10, 2003	- Added 2.4.27 to the bottom
		  I had trouble building modutils 2.4.25 with flex 2.5.31
Apr 9, 2003	- 2.5.27 -> 2.5.31
Mar 14, 2003	- First entry

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