Description of problem:

While trying to build ncl (ncarg replacement), I'm getting the following error:

flex ncl.l
ncl.l:262: bad character: %
ncl.l:262: unknown error processing section 1
ncl.l:262: unknown error processing section 1
ncl.l:262: bad character: 4
ncl.l:262: bad character: 0
ncl.l:262: bad character: 0
ncl.l:262: bad character: 0
ncl.l:263: bad character: %
ncl.l:263: unknown error processing section 1
ncl.l:263: bad character: 4
ncl.l:263: bad character: 0
ncl.l:263: bad character: 0
ncl.l:263: bad character: 0

srpm is here:

http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/ncl-5.0.0-9.fc8.src.rpm

This worked previously with an earlier flex.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
flex-2.5.34-1.fc9.i386