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?RCS: $Id: lex.U,v 3.0.1.3 1994/10/29 16:22:50 ram Exp $
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?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1993, Raphael Manfredi
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?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence,
?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root
?RCS: of the source tree for dist 3.0.
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?RCS: Orginal Author: Graham Stoney <greyham@research.canon.oz.au>
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?RCS: $Log: lex.U,v $
?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.3  1994/10/29  16:22:50  ram
?RCS: patch36: spurious single quote could cause Configure to crash
?RCS: patch36: (reported by Xavier Le Vourch <xavierl@eiffel.com>.)
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?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.2  1994/08/29  16:27:09  ram
?RCS: patch32: added lexflags variable for lex flags setting
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?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1  1994/05/06  15:06:01  ram
?RCS: patch23: added trailing blank line for metalint
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?RCS: Revision 3.0  1993/08/18  12:08:55  ram
?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
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?MAKE:lex lexflags: Guess Myread Oldconfig flex test
?MAKE:	-pick add $@ %<
?S:lex:
?S:	This variable holds the name of the lexical analyser generator we
?S:	want to use in the Makefile. It can be lex or flex.
?S:.
?S:lexflags:
?S:	This variable holds any flags that should be passed to the lexical
?S:	analyzer.  It is up to the Makefile to use it.
?S:.
: determine lexical analyser generator
case "$lex" in
'')
	dflt=lex;;
*)
	dflt="$lex";;
esac
echo " "
if $test -f "$flex"; then
	rp='Which lexical analyser generator (lex or flex) shall I use?'
else
	rp='Which lexical analyser generator shall I use?'
fi
. ./myread
lex="$ans"

@if lexflags
: if using lex this will normally be useless, but flex frequently takes args
echo " "
case "$lexflags" in
'') dflt='none';;
*) dflt="$lexflags";;
esac
rp="What flags should be given to $lex?"
. ./myread
case "$ans" in
none) lexflags='';;
*) lexflags="$ans";;
esac

@end