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Re: raising minimum version of Flex
- From: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: Václav Haisman <v dot haisman at sh dot cvut dot cz>
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Steven Bosscher <stevenb at gcc dot gmail dot com>, Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:02:45 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: raising minimum version of Flex
Vaclav Haisman wrote:
> Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> [...]
> > openSUSE 10.2 now comes with flex 2.5.33, but FreeBSD, for example, still
> > is at flex 2.5.4. Just some additional data pointes...
> FreeBSD has version 2.5.33 as textproc/flex port.
But that will not replace the system flex, so it will require tweaking
environment variables or passing configure options.
OpenBSD also still ships with flex 2.5.4. That version has been the
defacto standard for years and is by far the most widespread version.
In my experience newer versions of flex are much less stable, and I
think requiring a newer version should not be done lightly.
Mark