On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:24:56PM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hi Tru, sorry for the further delay. > no problem :) > > > FAIL: t/lex-header > > ================== > > > > lex-header: running flex --version > > flex version 2.5.4 > > > Yikes! According to what I see in <http://flex.sourceforge.net/>, this > flex version is fifteen years old! The failure here is due to the fact > that we are assuming a flex feature (support for the "--header-file" > option) that is not present in such an old version. So we can consider > this a spurious error; and the fact that all the other test cases on lex > support have passed shows that Automake-generated rules can actually > work very well even with such an old flex version. > > (and BTW, I'd reeally suggest you to update your flex installation ;-) That's the default flex version on CentOS-5/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. [tru@sillage ~]$ rpm -q flex flex-2.5.4a-41.fc6.x86_64
I will install another flex version next time :). > > > FAIL: t/help2 > > ============== > > > > + aclocal-1.12 > > + cat stderr > > NONE:0: /usr/bin/m4: ERROR: end of file in string > > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 > > aclocal-1.12: error: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 > > + /bin/grep -F acinclude.m4 stderr > > + am_exit_trap 1 > > + exit_status=1 > > > This too sounds like a spurious error, in that the error message we > expected from this particular aclocal invocation is there, but it's > not as "precise" as we'd like it to be. Not a big deal, and not > really aclocal's fault, since the error message comes from GNU m4. > May I ask you which m4 version re you using? That is unfortunately > not registered in config.log ... > /usr/bin/m4 is the CentOS-5 default version. [tru@sillage ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/m4 m4-1.4.5-3.el5.1.x86_64 Another oldy too :D Thanks for you help, Tru -- Dr Tru Huynh | http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/Binfs/ mailto:t...@pasteur.fr | tel/fax +33 1 45 68 87 37/19 Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris CEDEX 15 France
