From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: The AMD64 distribution does not contain any i386 versions of the libl.a and libfl.a libraries contained in the package flex. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): WS3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /bin/arch x86_64 2.rpm --redhatprovides /usr/lib/libfl.a error: file /usr/lib/libfl.a: No such file or directory 3.rpm --redhatprovides /usr/lib64/libfl.a flex-2.5.4a-29
What are you building that requires building against flex?
Nothing any more. :-) We had an old application which did use yywrap from libfl. When we started building on x86_64 with i386 as target we encountered this problem. But we did some obvious trivial changes so we no longer do link with -lfl. It would still be needed to use x86_64 as a compatible development platform, so I would still argue it is a bug. But it doesn't have any high priority any more from our point of view.
Closing not a bug per earlier comments, no plans to add 32-bit flex package to x86-64 RHEL 3 distro at this time.