[Olsr-users] the flex

[Ferry Huberts]

m4 is part of autotools (or whatever it's called on Ubuntu)

On 16/05/16 11:50, Quanxin wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am installing and building olsrd2 on Ubuntu(distribution 12.10)
> according to the guidance:
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> //a current build system (GCC, GNU-Make, ...)
> //CMake version 2.8.12 or better
> //Git
> //pkg-config
> //libnl-3-dev (including libnl-genl-3-dev) or libnl-tiny for the
> nl80211-listener plugin
> //libuci for the cfg_uciloader plugin
> //libtomcrypt-dev for the hash_tomcrypt plugin
>
> I met some annoying problems.
> When I tried to install the libnl-3-dev, it said that the "bison" and
> "flex" were needed.
> So I downloaded the flex-2.6.0 and tried.
> But there was an error message:
> //checking for m4 that supports -P... configure: error: could not find
> m4 that supports -P.
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> I searched on the web and it says the newer version of flex doesn't
> support Linux.
> What should I do?
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> Thanks!
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> Best regards!
> Sincerely yours
> Zhang Quanxin
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Ferry Huberts