Bug #496
closed
flex upgrade
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Description
So here's a patch that will bring in the latest version of flex, and will
put it in contrib/. I'd appreciate some feedback. If I don't hear any
objections, I'll plan on importing this in about a week.
http://www.theshell.com/~pavalos/wip/lex.patch
Another possible thing we could do is move the library building into
lib/libln/. What do you think about that?
Thanks,
Peter
Updated by pavalos over 17 years ago
Forgot to mention that this depends on changes to m4:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/submit/2006-12/msg00036.html
Updated by pavalos over 17 years ago
I've decided to postpone this upgrade until after the next release to test
the impact on 3rd-party programs. Here's the NEWS file for flex for people
to see the user-visible changes:
http://flex.cvs.sourceforge.net/flex/flex/NEWS?view=markup
--Peter
Updated by corecode over 17 years ago
is that necessary? what do we gain from a new version? it seems that this breaks code in world (see your amd patch). this leads me to the conclusion that it might break 3rd party code as well. i think this should only go into the tree after massive testing of pkgsrc etc.
cheers
simon
Updated by marino over 11 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Assignee changed from pavalos to dragonflybsd1
- Priority changed from Low to Normal
I'll take this.
We now have the opposite problem; lex is so old s/w doesn't build on it anymore. pkgsrc has been masking this for a while, especially with their new FLEX_REQD directive.
Updated by marino over 11 years ago
I tried to upgrade flex, but it turns out that our M4 isn't working right (confirmed by dports that was using new flex with system M4 before I changed it to use GM4).
So first I have to up to update M4 before importing Flex. It will have to be done in stages.
Updated by pavalos over 11 years ago
m4 updated in 4afad3d8f675d4c7d767e86520a3c2eda3d56658.
Updated by marino over 11 years ago
Thanks.
The latest version of flex builds entire world now (with a bug fix to contrib/amd/amd) so I will be committing this very soon!
Updated by marino over 11 years ago
flex 2.5.37 is in master.
I left lex in place (not building), I will remove in about a week or so.
Updated by marino about 11 years ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
legacy lex files now removed.