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From: Scot Jenkins <sj@sdf.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, arnold@skeeve.com
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Can anyone point me to source for a lex that works on Linux?
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:03:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201808132103.w7DL3in4008770@sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201808131906.w7DJ6bAw005597@skeeve.com>

Arnold Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> Can anyone point me to source for Unix lex that can be compiled and
> works on Linux?  I've tried in the past to make V7 lex work and failed.

Heirloom development tools includes lex:
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/devtools.html

I had it working on an older version of Slackware (12.x?) years ago.
It should still build on current Linux systems.

You need to build/install heirloom-sh first, then use it when
building heirloom-devtools.

scot

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-13 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-13 19:06 Arnold Robbins
2018-08-13 19:57 ` ron
2018-08-14  7:41   ` arnold
2018-08-14 19:16   ` Cág
2018-08-14 23:20     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-13 21:03 ` Scot Jenkins [this message]

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