"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.
regards, tom lane