Re: Flex vs Lex

> On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 
> > Barring protests, I will instruct configure and the makefiles to only look
> > for and use Flex rather than any old Lex, since the latter won't work
> > anyway. If at a later date someone has a burning desire to make things
> > work with FooNix Lex it should be a relatively simple change back -- in
> > any case simpler than making that other lex work in the first place.
> 
> okay, just checked FreeBSD, and /usr/bin/lex == /usr/bin/flex, so we're
> safe here, but what about the other OSs? Any chance one of them has flex
> installed as just lex?

BSDI.  Don't make the change.
#$ flexbash: flex: command not found#$ lex

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