Hello. You need to have flex installed.
-martin On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Lillian wrote: > I have installed Apache1.3.29 on my linux pc, and when I try to install > php4.3.4, I got the following error when try to run ./configure , how do I > fix it? > > Regards, > Lillian > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] php-4.3.4]# ./configure > loading cache ./config.cache > checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu > checking for gcc... gcc > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no > checking whether we are using GNU C... yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E > checking for AIX... no > checking if compiler supports -R... no > checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes > checking for re2c... exit 0; > checking for ranlib... ranlib > checking whether ln -s works... yes > checking for gawk... gawk > checking for bison... no > checking for byacc... no > configure: warning: You will need bison if you want to regenerate the PHP > parsers. > checking for flex... lex > checking for yywrap in -ll... no > checking lex output file root... ./configure: line 2425: lex: command not > found > configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up >