Hi,
Yes, the new flex is no longer lex/POSIX compatible. It does,
however, work with modern C/C++ compilers a lot better, is
reenterant, and one can have multiple lex scanners in a program.
Because of that, and the fact we have flex-old, we are not going to
revert the default flex in Debian (and make people revert the changes
they have gone through).
Once once has converted ones code over, once can continue to
use the same build system (that calls lex, etc) as one used
to. Indeed, there have been no complaints about the compatibility
links so far, apart from this bug report.
Now, this is admittedly a documentation bug -- flex and POSIX
sections of the docs do need to be rewritten.
manoj
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