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Hi.
My aim is to install and hopefully learn to use tetex, but when I tried to ./configure it said I needed lex or flex. I arbitrarily choose flex, download it, and try to install it. When I try to make it I get a message to say that there's no such command as yacc. Not knowing what that is, I google and find something called bison which is supposed to do the same thing. That gets installed and made no problem, but flex still gives me the yacc error, so I have no idea where to go from here. I'm using Suse 9.2.
I am using ubuntu 9.10. I downloaded flex-2.5.35 and untarred it.
I tried to run ./configure..but it failed. I got the following output..
hecking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... no
checking for gmsgfmt... :
checking for xgettext... no
checking for msgmerge... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
checking for flex... no
checking for lex... no
checking for yywrap in -lfl... no
checking for yywrap in -ll... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for gawk... (cached) mawk
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for bison... bison
checking for help2man... help2man
checking for gm4... no
checking for gnum4... no
checking for m4... no
checking for GNU m4... no
configure: error: GNU M4 1.4 is required
Please let me know the step by step procedure of installing flex/bison. I am a newbie to linux...
Any kind of help will be truly appreciated.
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