Randy McMurchy wrote:
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?
Flex 2.5.31 with the debian fixes patch works for nearly all of BLFS.
There's also some more fixes to flex that might resolve the Doxygen
problems. I would say we really should stick with 2.5.31 and the
patches rather than revert back to being older then every distro out there.
Just my .02
J
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