Re: Newbie saying hi!

Hi Peter,

Typically these errors are caused by an incompatible version of flex.  
You may want to check if your distro provides a package called 
"flex-old" and install that instead.  You will need to do a make clean, 
reconfigure and recompile after this.

Note that you'll also likely have better luck with something other than 
the latest version of gcc (3.3 is recommended, although 4.0 should work 
as well).

Hope this helps,
Daniel

Peter Seebach wrote:
> Howdy!  I am interested in kicking winex around.  I have a very
> specific goal:  I want to extend/improve support for function keys.
> So far as I can tell, Windows natively supports F1-F24, and X supports
> even more.  Still, if I could even get 13-24 working, and possibly
> some hack to make F25-F35 do SOMETHING anyway, I would be happy.
>
> So far, I'm at the "can't even get it to build" state.  I ran configure
> and make just to make sure a clean CVS checkout would work.  I get:
>
> [...]
> flex -Cf  -d -Ppp -8 -olex.ppl.c ./ppl.l
> stdin:13889: m4: Warning: Excess arguments to built-in `m4_ifdef' ignored
> gcc -MMD -c  -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include  -g -O2 -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-keep-static-consts -D__const=const -fno-strict-aliasing -Wa,--execstack -D__int8=char -D__int16=short -D__int32=int "-D__int64=long long" -D__WINE__ -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -o lex.ppl.o lex.ppl.c
> ./ppl.l:81:1: warning: "/*" within comment
> ./ppl.l: In function 'pplex':
> ./ppl.l:305: error: 'seen_junk' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ./ppl.l:305: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> ./ppl.l:305: error: for each function it appears in.)
> ./ppl.l:305: error: 'pp_pp' undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> The error at line "81" is really that the huge comment at the beginning
> of ppl.l gets truncated at line 80; it finishes:
>
> 	 * arglist      :=
> 	 *              |  {id}
> 	 *              |  {arglist}
>
> and then just goes straight into the lex-generated code.  No idea why;
> the cutoff is about 1764 bytes into the file, so it's not just that the
> comment got truncated to a convenient power of two or something.
>
> The error at line "305" looks to be legit, by contrast; there is indeed
> no declaration in sight of "seen_junk".  Many of the other errors go
> away if I close the comment manually, but not all.
>
> Any suggestions?  Did I just get bit rot when checking out?  Should I
> have specified a particular revision when checking out?  The instructions
> I used were from:
>
> http://www.transgaming.com/sources.php
>
> and the checkout command was just:
>
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot co winex
>
> It seemed to run without errors.  Any advice welcome.  I could probably
> make this build, but any time something this odd happens during a build,
> my first guess is that there's an underlying assumption I need to check.
>
> -s
>   


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