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From: Peter Rehley <peter@rehley.net>
Subject: Re: flex and dos source files.   How is flex built for cygwin
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:37:12 -0800
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On Nov 22, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Peter Rehley wrote:
>
>> On Nov 20, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Reini Urban wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>> ok thanks, for confirmation.
>>> so cgf should repackage it. it's obviously a bug.
>>
>> I think so also because this isn't the behavior that occurs on linux 
>> or BSD.
>
> Umm, which behavior are you talking about?  The automatic conversion 
> of CRLF
> line endings to LF?  This is Cygwin-specific behavior, and has nothing 
> to do
> with Linux or BSD.  It's there to avoid complaints from people who 
> use, say,
> notepad on binary mounts to edit their .flex files.
I suspected as much.

[snip]
>> Modified build commands would be
>> ./configure; make LDFLAGS="/usr/lib/automode.o"
>
> <PEDANTIC>
> The above should really be
> 	./configure; make LDLIBS="/usr/lib/automode.o"
> 	                    ^^^^
make LIBS="-lintl /usr/lib/automode.o".  There is no LDLIBS in the flex 
source, and when setting LIBS the -lintl is needed because the LIBS in 
the Makefile had that value.
> It may not matter for linking in a .o file, but it certainly will 
> matter if
> a -l form is used (as you tried earlier).
> </PEDANTIC>
>
> HTH,
> 	Igor
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