>From: bdc@ai.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom)
>Date: Fri, 8 Apr 94 14:03:15 EDT

>fnord# make
 ^^^^^ What do you expect with a hostname like that one? :-)

>the problem seems to be that it cant be bootstrapped from the old one.
>i got a fresh 2.4.6 and built it on the sun and used it make lex.yy.c.

Use initscan.c to bootstrap flex if you run into problems:

cd /usr/src/usr.bin/lex
cp initscan.c scan.c
make && make install
rm scan.c
make && make install

That should do it.
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