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+# Template file for 'flex'
+pkgname=flex
+version=2.5.35
+distfiles="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flex/$pkgname-$version@.tar.bz2"
+build_style=gnu_configure
+configure_args="--disable-rpath"
+short_desc="The Fast Lexical Analyzer"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+checksum=0becbd4b2b36b99c67f8c22ab98f7f80c9860aec70f0350a0018f29a88704e7b
+long_desc="
+ Flex is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a
+ tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text.
+
+ The flex program reads user-specified input files, or its standard input
+ if no file names are given, 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 a C source file named, "lex.yy.c", which
+ defines the function yylex(). The file "lex.yy.c" can be compiled and
+ linked to produce an executable. When the executable is run, it analyzes
+ its input for occurrences of text matching the regular expressions for each
+ rule. Whenever it finds a match, it executes the corresponding C code."
+
+build_depends="bison-2.3" 
+run_depends="glibc-2.8 m4-1.4.12 bison-2.3"