On Wed, 10 May 1995 09:43:12 -0400 
 der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> wrote:

 > Yet another chapter in the 1.0-to-current upgrade story. :-)
 > 
 > As we saw in last issue's instalment :-), I left "make build" running
 > and went home.  Today I get here and find that it's croaked:

It was posted to current-users that you'd need to copy initscan.c to 
obj/scan.c for the first build of the newly upgraded flex...

 > 
 > ===> lex
 > flex -t -p /usr/src/usr.bin/lex/scan.l > scan.c
 > "/usr/src/usr.bin/lex/scan.l", line 68: bad character: %
 > "/usr/src/usr.bin/lex/scan.l", line 68: bad character: =
 > "/usr/src/usr.bin/lex/scan.l", line 68: bad character: "
 > "/usr/src/usr.bin/lex/scan.l", line 68: bad character: .
 > "/usr/src/usr.bin/lex/scan.l", line 68: bad character: "
 > "/usr/src/usr.bin/lex/scan.l", line 69: unknown error processing section 1
 > "/usr/src/usr.bin/lex/scan.l", line 69: bad character: %
 > "/usr/src/usr.bin/lex/scan.l", line 70: unknown error processing section 1
 > *** Error code 1
 > 
 > Stop.
 > *** Error code 1
 > 
 > Stop.
 > *** Error code 1
 > 
 > Stop.
 > *** Error code 1
 > 
 > Stop.
 > 
 > My first reaction is to figure that a previous attempt at "make build"
 > (under the (broken) snapshot kernel) installed a broken flex.  So I go
 > back to the SPARC binary snapshot and re-extract flex (and lex, which
 > flex is a hard link to).
 > 
 > But the binary snapshot's flex produces exactly the same errors!
 > Perhaps if I could get this flex built, it would be able to rebuild
 > itself, but at the moment I'm caught between the chicken and the egg,
 > to mix my metaphors.
 > 
 > For the moment, I'm just removing "lex" from SUBDIRS in
 > usr.bin/Makefile, but this clearly is not a fix.
 > 
 > Comments, anyone?  Would it work to just get someone with an
 > up-to-current flex to mail me the resulting scan.c?
 > 
 > 					der Mouse
 > 
 > 			    mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu

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