dnl we need version >= 2.5.31 for the reentrancy support
dnl in the parser.
flex_min_version=2.5.31
- flex_version=`$FLEX_PATH --version | head -n 1 | sed 's/^.* //' | sed 's/[[a-zA-Z]]*$//' | cut -d' ' -f1`
+ flex_version=`$FLEX_PATH --version | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}'`
AC_MSG_CHECKING([flex version $flex_version >= $flex_min_version])
if perl -w <<EOF
(\$min_version_major, \$min_version_minor, \$min_version_micro ) = "$flex_min_version" =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/;