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Date:      Fri, 5 Feb 2010 22:05:02 -0600
From:      Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, linimon@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/143351: [request] update flex(1) to at least 2.5.33
Message-ID:  <b6bb06271002052005v285cdc87hbff982aa01e64eaa@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d1002012157i74be831bi501d76ad6d73da2a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:48 PM, =C2=A0<linimon@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Old Synopsis: update flex to at least 2.5.33
>>> New Synopsis: [request] update flex(1) to at least 2.5.33
>>>
>>> State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended
>>> State-Changed-By: linimon
>>> State-Changed-When: Sat Jan 30 00:45:41 UTC 2010
>>> State-Changed-Why:
>>> Mark suspended awaiting someone to take up the (hard) task of deciding
>>> if this will create regressions. =C2=A0See:
>>>
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-January/002233.=
html
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D143351
>>
>> Indeed, it does. I did a build world to make sure it worked (using the
>> freebsd9 snapshot), then installed flex 2.5.35 and rebuilt.
>> /usr/src/cddl failed to build, and possible others (ran make -k, but
>> haven't checked the log yet). Should I file bugs for each program that
>> doesn't build in newer flex? or sit back and wait for someone to fix
>> flex for BSD and then include it?
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0File bugs for any and all issues you find, point them back t=
o this
> PR, and as long as everything points in the right direction and is
> done in proper order, everything should work just fine (TM).
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0The version bump definitely deserves a heads up though in th=
e
> current@ and stable@ community though so people can fix prepare to fix
> their potentially buggy / backwards incompatible yacc code, or bite
> the bullet and multislot version their tools [via ports].

Actually, I was mistaken. I used flex from
http://flex.sourceforge.net/, rather than the flex in ports. I just
did a make clean ; make world with flex from ports, and everything
builds fine (this is with FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201001-i386). I also
compared make's output, no new compiler warnings appear.

Of course, this isn't a complete analysis, but things look much better
than it initially appeared.

--=20
-Austin



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