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2012-02-12T16:37:44
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tests: fix spurious failures due to missing 'yywrap()' function
The AC_PROG_LEX Autoconf macro does not diagnose a failure to find
the "lex library" expected to provide a 'yywrap' function (function
which is required to link most lex-generated programs). On the
contrary, when all the link attempts (i.e., with '-ll' and '-lfl')
fail, configure declares that no lex library is needed, and simply
proceeds with the configuration process -- only for the build to
possibly fail later, at make time.
This behaviour is intended; the Autoconf manual reads:
You are encouraged to use Flex in your sources, since it is
both more pleasant to use than plain Lex and the C source it
produces is portable. In order to ensure portability, however,
you must either provide a function 'yywrap' or, if you don't use
it (e.g., your scanner has no '#include'-like feature), simply
include a '%noyywrap' statement in the scanner's source.
This AC_PROG_LEX behaviour is causing some spurious failures of
the Automake testsuite in environments which lack a proper library
providing 'yywrap' (this happens for example on Fedora-based
systems). The proper workaround is to simply provide a fall-back
implementation of 'yywrap' in our lexers.
See also similar commits 'v1.11-546-gca0ba5d' (24-10-2011),
'v1.11-1085-gb5c3968' (24-10-2011) and 'v1.11-871-geb147a1'
(25-05-2011).
* tests/lex-clean.test: Provide a dummy 'yywrap' function.
* tests/lex-line.test: Likewise.
* tests/lex-nodist.test: Likewise.
* tests/lex-depend.test: Likewise.
* tests/lex-clean-cxx.test: Move the dummy 'yywrap' function
from the main '.cc' file into the '.lxx' file, so that it won't
be subject to the namespace declaration in the '.cc' file (which
was causing a spurious link error in systems without a default
"lex library").
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