Building X11R6.8 in Fedora 15 - Flex not found

[Rick Stevens]

On 09/26/2011 01:49 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote:
> I am trying to build an older version of X Server on Fedora 15 to
> allow me to run a legacy application.  Fedora 8, which functions
> correctly for our application, will not install on a new computer for
> some reason, presumably because the new hardware uses UEFI, and Fedora
> 15 does not correctly run the application.
> 
> When I try to build X11R6.8 from source, I get the following error
> "ld:  cannot find -lfl".  Doing some digging, I found that this error
> is because the linker cannot find the flex library, however flex is
> installed.  I am running a minimal install of Fedora 15 i686 with the
> dev libraries and tools installed, nothing else.
> 
> Kernel Version is 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.PAE
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to clear this error?  All the
> answers I found just said to install flex.

Make sure you install flex-static.  You're looking for /usr/lib/libfl.a
which is provided by flex-static, not flex.
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