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From: David Myers <dcmyers@access.digex.net>
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Subject: Gnu configure problems (mail problems too!)
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 23:15:32 -0500 (EST)
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Folks -- sorry for the continuing problems with my mail messages.  They're
getting truncated, apparently because the freebsd.org mail server doesn't
like my home-grown mail software.  That's a separate problem, and I hope
you'll excuse the multiple messages.  I apologize for that.

Anyway, this message should be better, as I'm going through elm directly
from my shell account.  While attempting to compile flex (a necessary
first step in compiling Postgres95), I run into a bunch of error
messages from the GNU configure utility.  Here's a sample:

/usr/ports/devel/flex >make
Checksums OK.
===>  Configuring for flex-2.5.3
.
..
README
NEWS
COPYING
INSTALL
FlexLexer.h
configure.in
conf.in
Makefile.in
mkskel.sh
flex.skl
flexdef.h
version.h
ccl.c
dfa.c
ecs.c
gen.c
main.c
misc.c
nfa.c
parse.y
scan.l
skel.c
sym.c
tblcmp.c
yylex.c
libmain.c
libyywrap.c
MISC
flex.1
install.sh
mkinstalldirs
configure
initscan.c
config.log
confdefs.h
configure: error: missing argument to --
*** Error code 1



The strange thing about this is that I've used GNU configure many
times.  In fact, I've never seen any of the FreeBSD port packages
fail like this -- a simple "make" always works.  I'm not sure what
has changed.  Does anybody have any suggestions?  Alternatively,
if someone can point me to a binary version of Postgres95, I'd
be very happy (although still mystified as to why configure fails).

Thanks in advance, and again I apologize for the mail screw-up.

-David.