Problems installing bc

[bevenson]

I'm currently using Lunar v. 1.6.1 with kernel 2.6.18.2. It's a pretty fresh installation, the only modules I've added/updated so far are glibc, makedev, mtools, cdrtools, busybox and Linux-PAM. If I try "lin bc", it gets bc v. 1.06, and tries to compile it. The compile breaks because the makefile has a line in it that says "LEX = flex -I8", and it says "8" is not a valid option.

However, I downloaded v. 1.06 of bc from the GNU website, un tarred it, then did the commands, "./configure", "make", "make install", and it installed just fine. The interesting thing was the line "LEX = flex -I8" was in this makefile too.

Anyone have any idea why getting the same version of bc from GNU and manually installing it would be different than "lin bc"?

Thanks,
Bryan

[engelsman]

The lunar core tools call a setup script that reinitialises some of the environment variables such as PATH to a known state. This is one reason why you may see different behaviour between the installation via lin, and the installation by hand.

Note that if you install programs manually, no record is kept of the installation, and the lunar core tools won't be able to keep things up to date, track dependencies properly, etc.

[dveatch]

bc lin's just fine here. I suggest you try "lunar fix" and then relin bc to see if the clears your problem.
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