Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>  Maybe use instead:
>  USE_TOOLS+=          flex

That seems to work fine.

I'm normally a bit wary of forcing the use of a particular 
implementation of a utility (who needs so sit and watch software build 
when the OS tools work fine?), but as far as I know, there are only two 
implementations of lex, and only one of them works for cfengine2.

Cheers
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