Bug#291160: flex no longer lex compatible

2005-01-19 Thread Ross Combs
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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,

Bug#291160: flex no longer lex compatible

2005-01-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
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

Bug#291160: flex no longer lex compatible

2005-01-18 Thread Ross Combs
Package: flex Version: 2.5.31-26 The version of flex in Debian testing no longer works with a large number of packages which depend on traditional lex compatibility or POSIX lex compliance. The biggest problem I have had is that yywrap() now takes an argument of some type. Because of this I don'