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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!dmsperth.per.dms.CSIRO.AU!uniwa!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!sgiblab!gatekeeper.us.oracle.com!decwrl!apple!kaleida.com!conklin From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Upgrading NetBSD-0.9 to NetBSD-current Date: 11 Feb 1994 23:53:47 GMT Organization: Winning Strategies, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <CONKLIN.94Feb11155347@ngai.kaleida.com> References: <2jb9qg$8lt@sundog.tiac.net> <2jh1sl$fc5@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> Reply-To: conklin@kaleida.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ngai.kaleida.com In-reply-to: barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za's message of 12 Feb 1994 00:46:45 +0200 In article <2jh1sl$fc5@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett) writes: Alan> I recently went through the same exercise. I suggest that you try Alan> something like this: Alan> * Now build and install the new lex. This will require some hacking, Alan> because the new lex's "scanner.l" source file is written in a Alan> language that the old lex doesn't understand. The best way to fix this is to copy initscan.c to scan.c before compiling. Initscan.c is a copy of scan.c generated with the new lexer (from scan.l). It is provided for exactly this purpose: bootstrapping lex. --jtc