can't find expat header

[Michael Thon]

On Jul 28, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Harry van der Wolf wrote:

> You do not tell us whether you are using a cmake or a .configure  
> config tool, but in case it is an automake .configure tool, you  
> should use something like:
> "export CFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include"
> "export CXXFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include"
> "export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib"
> to tell your package (which one is it by the way?) where expat is.
> Possibly you might need also "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/ 
> pkgconfig" later on in your configure or cmake script.
>

The package is called mira and its for biological data analysis and it  
is using a configure script from automake.  It appears to be developed  
on linux but I don't have a linux box with enough RAM so I'm trying to  
compile it on my mac pro.  Those env. variables got me past the expat  
problem but now I ran into this:

if g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"mira\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"mira\" - 
DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"2.8.3\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"mira\ 2.8.3\" - 
DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"mira\" -DVERSION=\"2.8.3\" - 
DYYTEXT_POINTER=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 - 
DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 - 
DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 - 
DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE__BOOL=1 -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H=1 - 
Drestrict=__restrict -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_MALLOC=1 - 
DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_REALLOC=1 -DHAVE_STRFTIME=1 -DHAVE_FLOOR=1 - 
DHAVE_MEMSET=1 -DHAVE_POW=1 -DHAVE_SQRT=1 -DDEVELOPMENTVERSION=0 - 
DBOUNDTRACKFLAG=1 -DBUGTRACKFLAG=1 -I. -I. -I../    -DPUBLICQUIET -I/ 
opt/local/include  -O2 -MT exp_flexer.flex.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/ 
exp_flexer.flex.Tpo" -c -o exp_flexer.flex.o exp_flexer.flex.C; \
then mv -f ".deps/exp_flexer.flex.Tpo" ".deps/exp_flexer.flex.Po";  
else rm -f ".deps/exp_flexer.flex.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
/opt/local/include/FlexLexer.h:130: error: expected unqualified-id  
before numeric constant
make[2]: *** [exp_flexer.flex.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

I guess I'm stuck unless you or anyone else has some more suggestions.
Cheers
Mike