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Re: raising minimum version of Flex

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 22 Jan 2007 06:58:04 -0700
Subject: Re: raising minimum version of Flex
References: <1169444982.12112.15.camel@localhost> <m31wlnd1xp.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:

Ben> I think it's worth raising the minimum required version from 2.5.4 to
Ben> 2.5.31.

Ian> I want to point out that Fedora Core 5 appears to still ship flex
Ian> 2.5.4.  At least, that is what flex --version reports.

When this came up on irc, I looked around a little.  I think flex will
be upgraded in Fedora 7.

It would not be outrageously hard to set up a yum repository that
serves updated flex and gmp (+mpfr) RPMs, for GCC developers to use.

Tom

References:
- raising minimum version of Flex
  - From: Ben Elliston
- Re: raising minimum version of Flex
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor

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