[cmake-developers] Instructions for regenerating CMake flex files?

[Michael Wild]

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On 11/01/2010 05:08 PM, Hickel, Kelly wrote:
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>> From: cmake-developers-bounces at cmake.org [mailto:cmake-developers-
>> bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf Of Michael Wild
>> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:22 AM
>> To: cmake-developers at cmake.org
>> Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] Instructions for regenerating CMake
>> flex files?
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>> On 11/01/2010 04:07 PM, Hickel, Kelly wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>   I'm looking at porting CMake to z/OS and it seems as though I have
>> a need to regenerate all flex/yacc/bison generated files because the
>> system's character set is EBCDIC.  I've been googling a lot and haven't
>> been able to find any information on how to do this, the bootstrap
>> command doesn't do it and I haven't found anything in any of the files
>> in the 2.8.2 source tarball that really give me any hints, except lines
>> like this in the generated files:
>>> 	Run flex like this:
>>> 	  flex --prefix=cmListFileLexer_yy -ocmListFileLexer.c
>> cmListFileLexer.in.l
>>>
>>> But, I haven't found any files matching *yy* in the source tarball,
>> or in a cloned copy of the git archive.
>>>
>>> Any tips?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> Kelly Hickel
>>> Product Development Architect
>>> BMC Software
>>
>> That's because flex files have a .l suffix (in your example it would be
>> cmListFileLexer.in.l). So, go ahead and run the command as the comment
>> says (and post-process the output manually, as is also stated in the
>> comments).
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Michael
>>
> 
> Ahh, the power that Monday doth posses to make one feel an idiot.....
> 
> You mean I actually have to READ what's in the file?   AND follow directions?
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> Yikes!   ;-}
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> Thanks Michael,
> Kelly
> 

It does help occasionally, no matter how contrary to intuition it might
be ;-)

Michael
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