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+SUMMARY = "Flex (The Fast Lexical Analyzer)"
+DESCRIPTION = "Flex is a fast lexical analyser generator.  Flex is a tool for generating programs that recognize \
+lexical patterns in text."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/flex/"
+
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+DEPENDS += "${@'bison-native flex-native' if '${PTEST_ENABLED}' == '1' else ''}"
+
+SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/flex/flex-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
+           file://run-ptest \
+"
+
+inherit autotools gettext texinfo ptest
+
+
+M4 = "${bindir}/m4"
+M4_class-native = "${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/m4"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF += "ac_cv_path_M4=${M4}"
+EXTRA_OEMAKE += "m4=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/m4"
+
+do_install_append_class-native() {
+	create_wrapper ${D}/${bindir}/flex M4=${M4}
+}
+
+do_install_append_class-nativesdk() {
+	create_wrapper ${D}/${bindir}/flex M4=${M4}
+}
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "m4"
+
+do_compile_ptest() {
+	for i in `find ${S}/tests/ -type d |grep -Ev "concatenated-options|reject|table-opts" | awk -F/ '{print $NF}'`; \
+	  do oe_runmake -C ${S}/tests/$i -f ${B}/tests/$i/Makefile top_builddir=${B} FLEX=flex $i; \
+	done
+	oe_runmake -C ${S}/tests/test-reject -f ${B}/tests/test-reject/Makefile top_builddir=${B} FLEX=flex test-reject-nr test-reject-r test-reject-ser test-reject-ver
+}
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+	for i in `find ${S}/tests/ -type d | awk -F/ '{print $NF}'`; \
+	  do cp -r ${S}/tests/$i ${D}${PTEST_PATH}; \
+	done
+}