Bug 160658

Summary:	update flex to 2.5.33?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Component:	flex	Assignee:	Petr Machata <pmachata>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	andre.ocosta, cattelan, mnewsome, oxben, t.matsuu
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Description Joe Orton 2005-06-16 13:55:02 UTC

The flex-2.5.31 available from sourceforge has a number of nice features over
the current release in FC, like support for creating thread-safe parsers:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=72099

any chance of an update?

Comment 1 Takanori MATSUURA 2006-06-29 00:53:15 UTC

Now 2.5.33
http://flex.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/flex/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=97492

Comment 2 Petr Machata 2006-06-30 10:13:10 UTC

*** Bug 190673 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Stefan Becker 2006-09-23 09:07:10 UTC

Just tried to rebuild the Mandriva 2007 xxdiff-3.2 SRPM for RHEL4 and found out
that a newer flex is required for this latest version:

flex  -PresParser resParser.l
"resParser.l", line 99: unrecognized %option: bison-bridge
"resParser.l", line 100: unrecognized %option: header-file

So a newer flex is required to compile at least some newer tool versions.

FYI: Mandriva 2007 provides flex 2.5.4a as "flex" RPM and flex 2.5.33 as
"flex-reentrant" RPM.

BTW: bug #207416 is a duplicate of this one.

Comment 4 Russell Cattelan 2006-09-25 05:06:24 UTC

*** Bug 207416 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Petr Machata 2006-09-25 08:52:45 UTC

Current status... I intend to update flex to newer version.  I will do it post
FC-6 for rawhide, as it's hard to predict what can break with new flex.  I
personally use new flex for my day-to-day work for some time now, but I'd rather
play it safe.

Comment 6 Andre Costa 2006-12-22 15:50:27 UTC

I just checked and rawhide still offers flex 2.5.4a-41. Any ETA on an updated
flex? xxdiff [http://furius.ca/xxdiff/] can't be built with flex 2.5.4...

TIA

Comment 7 Petr Machata 2006-12-22 16:15:04 UTC

The things are underway, the plan is to do the transition in FC 7.  The first
step is to get compat-flex into distribution, more in bug 220381.  Currently it
seems it'll have to go to extras, which delays things a bit, as I'll have to
setup my account for extras.  Once it's here, I'll roll flex 2.5.33 for rawhide.

Comment 8 Petr Machata 2007-01-23 11:12:02 UTC

*** Bug 223624 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Takanori MATSUURA 2007-01-23 11:34:24 UTC

Could anyone change the summary like to "update flex to 2.5.33?"?
The present one is too ambiguous.

Comment 10 Petr Machata 2007-01-24 17:38:29 UTC

I just built flex 2.5.33 for raw hide.  I'm already looking forward to all the
rejects-valid and accepts-invalid bugs that will pop up.  Enjoy!