westes / flex

The Fast Lexical Analyzer - scanner generator for lexing in C and C++
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Document flex bootstrapping requirement #571

Open westes opened 1 year ago

westes commented 1 year ago

Document (in INSTALL.md) that when building from git, there must be a sufficiently recent version of flex already availabl and that without such a version, flex will not build. Make it clear that the way to do this is by building from a release tarball if the underlying operating sytem does not provide a recent enough version.