Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>Not that hard to believe. 2.5.4 is what the major distributions are
>>>shipping.
>>>Even FC4 comes with 2.5.4a. The only reason I can see for this is that Flex
>>>is now considered a NON-GNU project.
>>
>>
>>No, the major reason for it is that flex 2.5.31 is seriously broken and
>>non-compatible with its prior releases. I wasn't aware that they'd gone
>>so far as to remove a documented macro (one that was documented in 2.5.4
>>as the *preferred* way to do things, mind you) but we already knew of
>>several other issues with it. See the archives.
>>
>>I'll try to snarf a copy and see if there's a way to do it that's
>>compatible with both releases, but it's the flex authors' own fault
>>that 2.5.31 has had such poor uptake.
>
>
> hmm it does not seem to work with the 2.5.4 version debian supplies as
> "flex-old" too - maybe the following debian bug report(filed against
> woody!) is related to this:
sorry for the false alarm, actually i can confirm that 2.5.31 (which is
the default flex on Sarge) is broken and 2.5.4 (available as flex-old)
DOES work.
Stefan