Hi All, I am coming from the CentOS 5.4 side. As of wine-1.1.36.tar.bz2, the "Wine" folks have added a requirement for "flex 2.5.33 or newer" to their requirements list to compile Wine. They will not budge on backing off on the requirement. See: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21288#c3 Would you please consider doing a more modern RPM of "flex" so we can compile wine-1.1.36.tar.bz2 under CentOS 5.4? The RPM from Fedora Core 7 (flex-2.5.33-9.fc7.i386.rpm) works perfectly with CentOS 5.4. It should be pretty easy to migrate to RHEL 5.4. Many thanks, -T ./wineinstall Wine Installer v1.0 ... checking whether flex is recent enough... no configure: error: Your flex version is too old. Please install flex version 2.5.33 or newer. # yum install flex ... Package flex-2.5.4a-41.fc6.i386 already installed and latest version Nothing to do
I agree that flex-2.5.4a is quite ancient and lacks important features. flex 2.5.30+ has been in Fedora since Jan 2007, which is three years now. By that time the 2.5.30 line wasn't even recent anymore. Still, several bugs were reported during the fallout of the rebase and fixed, meaning the rebase wasn't "seamless" and software wasn't universally ready to deal with newer version of flex. Some packages were likely adapted to new flex without my knowing, working around stuff that doesn't work or that changed. So while I'm backing the proposal to rebase flex to newer version, I also maintain that we have to ship compat-flex package with the original version of flex. FWIW that's the setup seen in Fedora distros, and that's what will most probably be in RHEL 6.
Agree ("new" flex isn't really compatible with 2.5.4a). Reading the upstream comment, it turns out that a developer chose to require "new" flex to save 5 lines of code.
Keep this bug in mind also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570661
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libnl3 doesn't build with old flex, so I'd appreciate it if this could move forward. I'll talk to libnl upstream in the meantime.
Closing as rebasing tools is not appropriate for this stage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. FWIW, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 contains flex-2.5.35.