README
1This is release 2.5 of flex. See "version.h" for the exact patch-level.
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3See the file "NEWS" to find out what is new in this Flex release.
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5Read the file "INSTALL" for general installation directives. Peek near
6the beginning of the file "Makefile.in" for special DEFS values. On most
7systems, you can just run the "configure" script and type "make" to build
8flex; then "make check" to test whether it built correctly; and if it did,
9then "make install" to install it.
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11If you're feeling adventurous, you can also issue "make bigcheck" (be
12prepared to wait a while).
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14Note that flex is distributed under a copyright very similar to that of
15BSD Unix, and not under the GNU General Public License (GPL), except for
16the "configure" script, which is covered by the GPL.
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18Many thanks to the 2.5 beta-testers for finding bugs and helping test and
19increase portability: Stan Adermann, Scott David Daniels, Charles Elliott,
20Joe Gayda, Chris Meier, James Nordby, Terrence O'Kane, Karsten Pahnke,
21Francois Pinard, Pat Rankin, Andreas Scherer, Marc Wiese, Nathan Zelle.
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23Please send bug reports and feedback to: Vern Paxson (vern@ee.lbl.gov).
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26The flex distribution consists of the following files:
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28 README This message
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30 NEWS Differences between the various releases
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32 INSTALL General installation information
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34 COPYING flex's copyright
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36 conf.in, configure.in, configure, Makefile.in, install.sh,
37 mkinstalldirs
38 elements of the "autoconf" auto-configuration process
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40 flexdef.h, parse.y, scan.l, ccl.c, dfa.c, ecs.c, gen.c, main.c,
41 misc.c, nfa.c, sym.c, tblcmp.c, yylex.c
42 source files
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44 version.h version of this flex release
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46 flex.skl flex scanner skeleton
47 mkskel.sh script for converting flex.skl to C source file skel.c
48 skel.c pre-converted C version of flex.skl
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50 libmain.c flex library (-lfl) sources
51 libyywrap.c
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53 initscan.c pre-flex'd version of scan.l
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55 FlexLexer.h header file for C++ lexer class
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57 flex.1 user documentation
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59 MISC/ a directory containing miscellaneous contributions.
60 See MISC/README for details.
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