On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:49:23PM +0300, antti autio wrote:
> hello, world.
> i am a bsd newbie (migrated from linux some time ago) from finland
> trying to compile the unicode editor yudit (available from 
> http://yudit.org/downloads/yudit-1.5.tar.gz) on netbsd/i386 1.4.2.
> 
> the compile fails with something that looks like a problem
> with flex:
> 
> c++ -o uniconv uniconv.o -L../src -L../lib  -lnunic   
> UParseLex.cpp:2587: Undefined symbol `_yy_flex_realloc' referenced from text segment
> UParseLex.cpp:2852: Undefined symbol `_yy_flex_alloc' referenced from text segment
> UParseLex.cpp:2861: Undefined symbol `_yy_flex_alloc' referenced from text segment
> UParseLex.cpp:2882: Undefined symbol `_yy_flex_free' referenced from text segment
> UParseLex.cpp:2884: Undefined symbol `_yy_flex_free' referenced from text segment
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> gmake[1]: *** [uniconv] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/yudit-1.5/uniconv'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 1
> 
> any ideas how to proceed from here...? my configuration options
> for yudit are as follows:
> 
> # This directory was configured as follows,
> # on host sushi:
> #
> # ./configure  --prefix=/usr/local --with-freetype-libs=/usr/pkg/lib --with-freetype-includes=/usr/pkg/include
> 
> a nearby box running openbsd/i386 seems to compile it ok. a freebsd
> package also seems to be available which i haven't tried yet but
> i would prefer being able to compile it on my home system of course :)

If there is a package for FreeBSD then there should be port source available.
You could look at it and see if there's some patches available here.
You could also look for #defines that could be different on NetBSD and
OpenBSD

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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