[ncl-install] flex error: bad character: %

[Jan Ploski]

Rick Grubin wrote:
> Hi Jan
> 
>> Mary Haley wrote:
>>> I checked the version of flex on three different systems that we 
>>> have, and they are all running a slightly newer version, 3.5.4.
> 
>> According to the following Sourceforge page:  2.5.34 is the newest 
>> version, which is what I downloaded and compiled.
> 
> I think that's a typo, and Mary did indeed mean v2.5.4   Each *nix 
> system I've looked at soft-links 'lex' to 'flex' and the version of
> flex running is 2.5.4
> 
>> Are you saying that the file ncl.l translates without problems for you 
>> and has the same content as mine? I suspected that this may be a 
>> generated file and something might have gone wrong during its 
>> generation. I don't know the flex syntax, so I couldn't tell by looking.
> 
> Please go ahead and email me your 'ncl.' file, and could you please tell 
> me the filesize ('ls -l') of your 'ncl.l' file?  Thanks.

Rick,

I solved my problem by downgrading flex to 2.5.33 (this is the version 
that I had on my Debian system at home). It compiles the file ncl.l 
without producing the error messages.

I just did a make clean; make Everything. I will report back if I 
encounter other difficulties.

Best regards,
Jan Ploski