This is release 2.4 of flex. See "version.h" for the exact patch-level.
See the file "NEWS" to find out what is new in this Flex release.
Read the file "INSTALL" for general installation directives. Peek near
the beginning of the file "Makefile.in" for special DEFS values. On most
systems, you can just run the "configure" script and type "make" to build
flex; then "make check" to test whether it built correctly; and if it did,
then "make install" to install it.
If you're feeling adventurous, you can also issue "make bigcheck" (be
prepared to wait a while).
Note that flex is distributed under a copyright very similar to that of
BSD Unix, and not under the GNU General Public License (GPL), except for
the "configure" script, which is covered by the GPL.
Many thanks to the 2.4 pre-testers for finding a bunch of bugs and helping
increase/test portability: Francois Pinard, Nathan Zelle, Gavin Nicol,
Chris Thewalt, and Matthew Jacob.
Please send bug reports and feedback to:
Vern Paxson
ICSD, 46A/1123
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Rd.
Berkeley, CA 94720
vern@ee.lbl.gov
The flex distribution consists of the following files:
README This message
NEWS Differences between the various releases
INSTALL General installation information
COPYING flex's copyright
configure.in, configure, Makefile.in, install.sh, mkinstalldirs
elements of the "autoconf" auto-configuration process
flexdef.h, parse.y, scan.l, ccl.c, dfa.c, ecs.c, gen.c, main.c,
misc.c, nfa.c, sym.c, tblcmp.c, yylex.c
source files
version.h version of this flex release
flex.skl flex scanner skeleton
mkskel.sh script for converting flex.skl to C source file skel.c
liballoc.c
libmain.c flex library (-lfl) sources
libyywrap.c
initscan.c pre-flex'd version of scan.l
FlexLexer.h header file for C++ lexer class
flexdoc.1 full user documentation
flex.1 reference documentation
MISC/ a directory containing miscellaneous contributions.
See MISC/README for details.
