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Source: flex
Section: devel
Priority: standard
Build-Depends: bison, gettext, texinfo, help2man, file, texi2html, po-debconf
Build-Depends-Indep: texi2html
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0
Package: flex
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, m4
Recommends: gcc | c-compiler
Suggests: bison
Description: A fast lexical analyzer generator.
flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognized lexical
patterns in text. flex reads the given input files for a description of a
scanner to generate. The description is in the form of pairs of regular
expressions and C code, called rules. flex generates as output a C source
file, lex.yy.c, which defines a routine yylex(). This file is compiled
and linked with the -lfl library to produce an executable. When the
executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of the regular
expressions. Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code.
.
The behaviour of Flex has undergone a major change since version
2.5.4a; Flex scanners are now reenterant, you may have multiple
scanners in the same program with differing sets of defaults, and
they play nicer with modern C and C++ compilers. The Flip side is
that Flex no longer conforms to the POSIX lex behaviour, and the
scanners require conforming implementations when flex is used in ANSI
C mode. The package flex-old provides the older behaviour.
.
This product includes software developed by the University of California,
Berkeley and its contributors. The upstream source code can be found at
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lex/flex-2.5.31.tar.bz2?download
The project web page is at http://lex.sf.net/
Package: flex-doc
Section: doc
Priority: optional
Architecture: all
Description: Documentation for flex (a fast lexical analyzer generator)
This package contains the HTML documentation for flex. The upstream
source code can be found at
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lex/flex-2.5.31.tar.bz2?download
The project web page is at http://lex.sf.net/
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