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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!interramp.com!usenet From: dcmyers@access.digex.net (David C. Myers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: GNU "configure" problems Date: 12 Aug 1996 01:38:23 GMT Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Lines: 58 Sender: myers@freebsd.interramp.com (David C. Myers) Message-ID: <4um1uf$d35@usenet10.interramp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.12.171.65 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 I'm wondering if I screwed up something major here. I wanted to compile the 2.5.3 version of flex, so I located the version in the ports directory, downloaded it, and proceeded with "make". Normally, this works fine every time. However, this time, the make process bombed, producing: . .. README NEWS COPYING INSTALL FlexLexer.h configure.in conf.in Makefile.in mkskel.sh flex.skl flexdef.h version.h ccl.c dfa.c ecs.c gen.c main.c misc.c nfa.c parse.y scan.l skel.c sym.c tblcmp.c yylex.c libmain.c libyywrap.c MISC flex.1 install.sh mkinstalldirs configure initscan.c config.log confdefs.h configure: error: missing argument to -- So I downloaded some other stuff that uses GNU configure; all produced the same results. (This is all within the framework of the /usr/ports Makefile.) I tried various command line switches to configure, but nothing works. Can anybody suggest what might be wrong. I *know* I've run GNU configure successfully before. Thanks. -David.