Use GNU Flex instead. You can download ready-made flex binaries from
www.sunfreeware.com.
-(15) Solaris 8 + patch 10899[34]-xx (xx >= 18) or patch 11260[56]-xx
+(15) Solaris 8 + patch 10899[34]-xx (18 <= xx < 25) or patch 11260[56]-xx
With this patch, Sun updated the autofs kernel module and automountd
userspace daemon from version 3 to version 4. They also updated the
thinks it should use autofs version 3, when in fact the kernel now supports
(and expects) only version 4.
-The fix is to run 'rpcgen -C -h /usr/include/rpcsvc/autofs_prot.x >
+The workaround is to run 'rpcgen -C -h /usr/include/rpcsvc/autofs_prot.x >
/usr/include/rpcsvc/autofs_prot.h' and completely reconfigure and rebuild
am-utils (removing config.cache before running configure).
+The problem is fixed in patch revisions 10899[34]-25 and up.
+
Erez & Ion
+2003-09-03 Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
+
+ * BUGS: Mention fix for broken Solaris 8 <rpcsvc/autofs_prot.h>
+ patches.
+
2003-08-31 Erez Zadok <ezk@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
* amd/autil.c (strealloc): don't call malloc_verify() unless it