5 # Script to run Lex/Flex.
6 # First argument is the (quoted) name of the command; if it's null, that
7 # means that neither Flex nor Lex was found, so we report an error and
12 # Get the name of the command to run, and then shift to get the arguments.
16 echo "Usage: runlex <lex/flex command to run> [ arguments ]" 1>&2
23 # Check whether we have Lex or Flex.
27 echo "Neither lex nor flex was found" 1>&2
32 # Process the flags. We don't use getopt because we don't want to
33 # embed complete knowledge of what options are supported by Lex/Flex.
43 # Set the output file name.
45 outfile
=`echo "$1" | sed 's/-o\(.*\)/\1/'`
50 # Add this to the list of flags.
66 # Is it Lex, or is it Flex?
68 if [ "${LEX}" = flex
]
76 # Does it support the --noFUNCTION options? If so, we pass
77 # --nounput, as at least some versions that support those
78 # options don't support disabling yyunput by defining
81 if flex
--help |
egrep noFUNCTION
>/dev
/null
83 flags
="$flags --nounput"
86 # Does it support -R, for generating reentrant scanners?
87 # If so, we're not currently using that feature, but
88 # it'll generate some unused functions anyway - and there
89 # won't be any header file declaring them, so there'll be
90 # defined-but-not-declared warnings. Therefore, we use
91 # --noFUNCTION options to suppress generating those
94 if flex
--help |
egrep reentrant
>/dev
/null
96 flags
="$flags --noyyget_lineno --noyyget_in --noyyget_out --noyyget_leng --noyyget_text --noyyset_lineno --noyyset_in --noyyset_out"
108 # If it's lex, it doesn't support -o, so we just write to
109 # lex.yy.c and, if it succeeds, rename it to the right name,
110 # otherwise we remove lex.yy.c.
111 # If it's flex, it supports -o, so we use that - flex with -P doesn't
112 # write to lex.yy.c, it writes to a lex.{prefix from -P}.c.
114 if [ $have_flex = yes ]
116 ${LEX} $flags -o"$outfile" "$@"
125 # No. Exit with the failing exit status.
131 # Flex has the annoying habit of stripping all but the last
132 # component of the "-o" flag argument and using that as the
133 # place to put the output. This gets in the way of building
134 # in a directory different from the source directory. Try
135 # to work around this.
137 # Is the outfile where we think it is?
139 outfile_base
=`basename "$outfile"`
140 if [ "$outfile_base" != "$outfile" -a \
( ! -r "$outfile" \
) -a -r "$outfile_base" ]
143 # No, it's not, but it is in the current directory. Put it
144 # where it's supposed to be.
146 mv "$outfile_base" "$outfile"
155 # No. Exit with the failing exit status.
170 # No. Get rid of any lex.yy.c file we generated, and
171 # exit with the failing exit status.
178 # OK, rename lex.yy.c to the right output file.
180 mv lex.yy.c
"$outfile"
189 # No. Get rid of any lex.yy.c file we generated, and
190 # exit with the failing exit status.
198 # OK, now let's generate a header file declaring the relevant functions
199 # defined by the .c file; if the .c file is .../foo.c, the header file
202 # This works around some other Flex suckage, wherein it doesn't declare
203 # the lex routine before defining it, causing compiler warnings.
204 # XXX - newer versions of Flex support --header-file=, to generate the
205 # appropriate header file. With those versions, we should use that option.
209 # Get the name of the prefix; scan the source files for a %option prefix
210 # line. We use the last one.
212 prefix
=`sed -n 's/%option[ ][ ]*prefix="\(.*\)".*/\1/p' "$@" | tail -1`
213 if [ ! -z "$prefix" ]
215 prefixline
="#define yylex ${prefix}lex"
219 # Construct the name of the header file.
221 header_file
=`dirname "$outfile"`/`basename "$outfile" .c`.h
224 # Spew out the declaration.
226 cat <<EOF >$header_file
227 /* This is generated by runlex.sh. Do not edit it. */
230 #define YY_DECL int yylex(void)