build: Use AX_PROG_FLEX

Tested-by: Andreas Boll <andreas.boll.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47248

1 files changed, 63 insertions, 0 deletions

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+# ===========================================================================
+#       http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_prog_flex.html
+# ===========================================================================
+#
+# SYNOPSIS
+#
+#   AX_PROG_FLEX(ACTION-IF-TRUE,ACTION-IF-FALSE)
+#
+# DESCRIPTION
+#
+#   Check whether flex is the scanner generator. Run ACTION-IF-TRUE if
+#   successful, ACTION-IF-FALSE otherwise
+#
+# LICENSE
+#
+#   Copyright (c) 2009 Francesco Salvestrini <salvestrini@users.sourceforge.net>
+#   Copyright (c) 2010 Diego Elio Petteno` <flameeyes@gmail.com>
+#
+#   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+#   under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+#   Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
+#   option) any later version.
+#
+#   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+#   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
+#   Public License for more details.
+#
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+#   with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+#   As a special exception, the respective Autoconf Macro's copyright owner
+#   gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify the configure
+#   scripts that are the output of Autoconf when processing the Macro. You
+#   need not follow the terms of the GNU General Public License when using
+#   or distributing such scripts, even though portions of the text of the
+#   Macro appear in them. The GNU General Public License (GPL) does govern
+#   all other use of the material that constitutes the Autoconf Macro.
+#
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+#   modified version of the Autoconf Macro, you may extend this special
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+
+#serial 9
+
+# mattst88:
+#     Replaced m4_ifnblank(...) with m4_ifval(m4_normalize(...), ...)
+#     since m4_ifnblank requires autoconf-2.64.
+
+AC_DEFUN([AX_PROG_FLEX], [
+  AC_REQUIRE([AM_PROG_LEX])
+  AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_EGREP])
+
+  AC_CACHE_CHECK([if flex is the lexer generator],[ax_cv_prog_flex],[
+    AS_IF([$LEX --version 2>/dev/null | $EGREP -q '^flex '],
+      [ax_cv_prog_flex=yes], [ax_cv_prog_flex=no])
+  ])
+  AS_IF([test "$ax_cv_prog_flex" = "yes"],
+    m4_ifval(m4_normalize([$1]), [[$1]]),
+    m4_ifval(m4_normalize([$2]), [[$2]])
+  )
+])