#! /bin/sh
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# 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
required='cc flex'
. test-init.sh
+# Here, we need to use the use flex option '--header-file', but some
+# older flex versions don't support is (see automake bug#11524 and
+# bug#12836). Skip this test if such an old flex version is detected.
+$LEX --help | grep '.*--header-file' \
+ || skip_ "flex doesn't support the '--header-file' option"
+
cat >> configure.ac << 'END'
AC_PROG_CC
AC_PROG_LEX
END
cat > main.c <<'END'
+#define YY_NO_UNISTD_H 1
#include "mylex.h"
int main (void)
{