From: Denis Ovsienko Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:05:21 +0000 (+0400) Subject: update flex and GCC text in INSTALL.txt X-Git-Tag: libpcap-1.6.0-bp~52 X-Git-Url: https://git.tcpdump.org/libpcap/commitdiff_plain/c77ffc1b7374d7baa5a6fc0841eb0dd6a8e60fab update flex and GCC text in INSTALL.txt --- diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt index ad787460..7bbbf0cb 100644 --- a/INSTALL.txt +++ b/INSTALL.txt @@ -29,19 +29,14 @@ where the configure scripts fails to detect it. You will need an ANSI C compiler to build libpcap. The configure script will abort if your compiler is not ANSI compliant. If this happens, use -the GNU C compiler, available via anonymous ftp: - - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/ +the generally available GNU C compiler (GCC). If you use flex, you must use version 2.4.6 or higher. The configure script automatically detects the version of flex and will not use it unless it is new enough. You can use "flex -V" to see what version you have (unless it's really old). The current version of flex is available -via anonymous ftp: - - ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/flex-*.tar.Z - -As of this writing, the current version is 2.5.4. +at flex.sourceforge.net and often comes packaged by means of the OS. +As of this writing, the current version is 2.5.37. If you use bison, you must use flex (and visa versa). The configure script automatically falls back to lex and yacc if both flex and bison