Re: [pcp] problems with linux pmda build

[Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/12/14 06:05, Martins Innus wrote:
> Ken,
>
> On 12/19/14 3:14 PM, Ken McDonell wrote:
> > On
> > vm04        unknown  i586    CentOS 5.11 (Final)
> > there is no flex-devel rpm, but libfl.a comes from the flex rpm.
> I looked into this and libfl.a recently changed location.  On the CentOS
> side, it was in the flex package pre 6.6.  From 6.6 onwards it is in a
> new flex-devel package.  On the Fedora side, looks like there has been a
> flex-devel since at least version 18, and the libfl.a has been there
> that whole time.  I was unable to find any earlier information.
Thanks Martins.

I have found a way of fixing this that avoids libfl.a altogether (commit 
coming soon).  We use flex in lots of places and don't need libfl.a 
there, so I was able to add a few snippets into lex.l and the problem 
appears to have gone away.