On 3 November 2016 at 22:42, Timothy Arceri <timothy.arc...@collabora.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 08:56 +1100, Timothy Arceri wrote: >> On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 12:41 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote: >> > >> > From: Emil Velikov <emil.veli...@collabora.com> >> > >> > Flex version 2.6.2 does not expand (define) the yy version of some >> > function, thus we fail to compile. >> >> functions >> >> > >> > >> > Strictly speaking this might be a flex bug, although expanding the >> > few >> > instances is perfectly trivial and works with 2.6.2 and earlier >> > versions >> > of flex. >> >> This seems a bit fragile to me. As far as I can tell (although it >> might >> be unlikely) there is no guarantee that the expanded functions won't >> be >> be changed on the flex end and require renaming again in future. >> >> It would be nice if we could discover the real problem rather than >> papering over it. > > This looks like it: > > https://github.com/westes/flex/issues/113 > > I've added it to the bug report. Looking at the gentoo tracker bug it > looks like this breaks a bunch of software not just Mesa. I think we > should probably just wait and see what happens there before changing > anything. > Fine with me. Btw, I did double check that older flex does work like a charm. One might get the odd (depending on GCC used) warning, but that won't cause any issues... unless flex does some fundamental design breakage ;-)
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