build/1904: make fails with "ada-lex.c missing and flex not available."

[paul dot holder at veritas dot com]

>Number:         1904
>Category:       build
>Synopsis:       make fails with "ada-lex.c missing and flex not available."
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 01 13:58:01 UTC 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     paul.holder@veritas.com
>Release:        unknown-1.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
AIX 5.2 (ML04 new build), gcc 3.3.2, gdb 6.3 src
>Description:
During the make the following is seen causing make to exit.

gdb-6.3 >make -f Makefile
 ...<cut>...
checking build system type... powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
        if [ "/var/adm/ras/platform/gdb-6.3/missing flex" ] && /var/adm/ras/platform/gdb-6.3/missing flex --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then  /var/adm/ras/platform/gdb-6.3/missing flex -oada-lex.c ada-lex.l &&  rm -f ada-lex.c.new &&  sed -e '/extern.*malloc/d'  -e '/extern.*realloc/d'  -e '/extern.*free/d'  -e '/include.*malloc.h/d'  -e 's/\([^x]\)malloc/\1xmalloc/g'  -e 's/\([^x]\)realloc/\1xrealloc/g'  -e 's/yy_flex_xrealloc/yyxrealloc/g'  < ada-lex.c > ada-lex.c.new &&  rm -f ada-lex.c &&  mv ada-lex.c.new ada-lex.c;  elif [ -f ada-lex.c ]; then  echo "Warning: ada-lex.c older than ada-lex.l and flex not available.";  else  echo "ada-lex.c missing and flex not available.";  false;  fi
ada-lex.c missing and flex not available.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.


Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
>How-To-Repeat:
As above
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
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