I got bit by this tonight as part of testing a patch on CentOS 5, which
like RHEL 5 still ships flex 2.5.4. I just wrote a little guide on how to
grab a source RPM from a Fedora version and install it to work around that
problem:
http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2009/07/upgrading-flex-from-source-rpm-to.html
Kind of annoying, but as special software you have to install on a server
just to build something from CVS goes it's only a minor inconvenience.
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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD