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+DESCRIPTION="Flex is a tool for generating scanners." 
+HOMEPAGE="http://flex.sourceforge.net/" 
+SRC_URI="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/flex/flex/flex-2.5.35/flex-2.5.35.tar.bz2?use_mirror=superb-sea2"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="broken"
+DEPEND=""
+CHECKSUM_MD5="10714e50cea54dc7a227e3eddcd44d57"
+BUILD {
+	cd flex-2.5.35
+	automake --add-missing --force-missing
+	./configure --prefix=/boot/common
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd flex-2.5.35
+	make install
+}