1 This is release 2.5 of flex. See "version.h" for the exact patch-level. 2 3 See the file "NEWS" to find out what is new in this Flex release. 4 5 Read the file "INSTALL" for general installation directives. Peek near 6 the beginning of the file "Makefile.in" for special DEFS values. On most 7 systems, you can just run the "configure" script and type "make" to build 8 flex; then "make check" to test whether it built correctly; and if it did, 9 then "make install" to install it. 10 11 If you're feeling adventurous, you can also issue "make bigcheck" (be 12 prepared to wait a while). 13 14 Note that flex is distributed under a copyright very similar to that of 15 BSD Unix, and not under the GNU General Public License (GPL), except for 16 the "configure" script, which is covered by the GPL. 17 18 Many thanks to the 2.5 beta-testers for finding bugs and helping test and 19 increase portability: Stan Adermann, Scott David Daniels, Charles Elliott, 20 Joe Gayda, Chris Meier, James Nordby, Terrence O'Kane, Karsten Pahnke, 21 Francois Pinard, Pat Rankin, Andreas Scherer, Marc Wiese, Nathan Zelle. 22 23 Please send bug reports and feedback to: Vern Paxson (vern (a] ee.lbl.gov). 24 25 26 The flex distribution consists of the following files: 27 28 README This message 29 30 NEWS Differences between the various releases 31 32 INSTALL General installation information 33 34 COPYING flex's copyright 35 36 conf.in, configure.in, configure, Makefile.in, install.sh, 37 mkinstalldirs 38 elements of the "autoconf" auto-configuration process 39 40 flexdef.h, parse.y, scan.l, ccl.c, dfa.c, ecs.c, gen.c, main.c, 41 misc.c, nfa.c, sym.c, tblcmp.c, yylex.c 42 source files 43 44 version.h version of this flex release 45 46 flex.skl flex scanner skeleton 47 mkskel.sh script for converting flex.skl to C source file skel.c 48 skel.c pre-converted C version of flex.skl 49 50 libmain.c flex library (-lfl) sources 51 libyywrap.c 52 53 initscan.c pre-flex'd version of scan.l 54 55 FlexLexer.h header file for C++ lexer class 56 57 flex.1 user documentation 58 59 MISC/ a directory containing miscellaneous contributions. 60 See MISC/README for details. 61
