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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!ludens.elte.hu!goliat.eik.bme.hu!newsadmin Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Upgrading NetBSD-0.9 to NetBSD-current Message-ID: <2jsvm9$5qn@goliat.eik.bme.hu> From: pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther)) Date: 16 Feb 1994 11:22:49 GMT Reply-To: pink@fsz.bme.hu References: <2jh1sl$fc5@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> Distribution: world Organization: Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest, HUNGARY NNTP-Posting-Host: bagira.fsz.bme.hu Lines: 36 In article fc5@lucy.ee.und.ac.za, barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett) writes: >In article <2jb9qg$8lt@sundog.tiac.net>, >timj@tiac.net (Tim Jackson) writes: >> I am trying to upgrade from a stock NetBSD 0.9 to NetBSD-current > >I recently went through the same exercise. I suggest that you try >something like this: [ deleted ] > > * Now build and install the new lex. This will require some hacking, > because the new lex's "scanner.l" source file is written in a > language that the old lex doesn't understand. The old lex will > complain about the "<*>" in one of the rules (just delete those > three characters to make it happy). Don't! If you look in lex's Makefile it says that to bootstrap lex cp the file initscan.c to scan.c (Not sure about the names, but something like that) and make. It will compile. Well, it did for me, at least. After this, you might want to recompile lex with itself, but i don't think it's needed. After fixing that, you will get > some undefined symbols at link time; these can be fixed by adding > appropriate stuff to the y.tab.h file that the old lex generates from > the new scanner.l; look at the compiler or linker error messages to > figure out what parts of the new flex.skl you should incorporate into > the generated y.tab.h to make it work. > [ deleted ] --- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |For your free signature, send $5.95 to | Szabolcs Szigeti | | the following address: | Internet: pink@fsz.bme.hu | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=