Re: compiling problem

From: Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 01:55:03 +0000
Subject: Re: compiling problem
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In article <01052320060702.00973@localhost.localdomain>, "John Morine" <jaman@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > I am compiling PHP4 with MYSQL and Apache (on Linix Mandrake 7.2) when > I do I get the following error: > > (everything is fine until) > checking for flex... lex checking for yywrap in -ll... no checking lex > output file root... ./configure: lex: command not found configure: > error: cannot find output from lex; giving up > > So am I right in thinking it can't find Bison? I couldn't find it so I > downloaded the latest version and installed it and tried again and get > the same result... Of course when I try to compile flex it can't find > yacc. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, John > I had the same problem. I downloaded and installed the "flex" RPM from http://www.rpmfind.net and after that compiling php worked fine.

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