hello,
building & installing flex from the packages collection solved the
problem. after that yudit 1.5 compiled fine, no other tweaking was
necessary. thank you for you help!

-a

Berndt Josef Wulf writes:
 > > > the compile fails with something that looks like a problem
 > > > with flex:
 > If you're running NetBSD-1.4.2 then you need to install the flex
 > utility from the packages collection. By memory, you may have to
 > comment out the line that prevents flex being built on i386 platforms
 > in the pkgsrc Makefile. On sucessful completion of building flex, move
 > mv /usr/bin/flex to /usr/bin/flex.orig and install the flex package.