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

[Mary Haley]

Jan,

Thanks for your patience with all this and my version typo.  :-)

It's interesting that differnt version of flex has this problem. We
will try to get to the bottom of this, and fix the ncl.l file, if
necessary, so that it should work with either version.

--Mary


On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Jan Ploski wrote:

> 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
>