Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/15/05 18:42 CST: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >>As for flex, it looks >>like the maintainers went AWOL again :( >>http://sourceforge.net/projects/lex/ currently lists 30 open bugs, and >>11 submitted patches yet to be applied. Maybe it would be prudent to >>roll back to 2.5.4a? At least that one manages to get doxygen to >>compile successfully! > > I see that there have been no updates in over two years. It seems that > the most recent version that doesn't break other software is the version > we should be using. > > BLFS does not track all the packages that use flex (or any other LFS > package), so figuring out all the packages that need it and putting them > in the individual packages would be a major problem for us.
Well, the version in LFS might have an issue with Doxygen (which is fixed by removing an unneeded file in the source tree), but are there any other issues with the current version of Flex that affects any other BLFS (or other) package? -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 18:47:01 up 43 days, 18:20, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
