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On 2013-05-21 16:30:48 -0400, John Marino wrote:
> On 5/21/2013 22:03, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>> Please note flex/lex was updated to 2.5.37 from
>> flex.sourceforge.net and __FreeBSD_version was bumped to
>> 1000033.
>> 
>> FYI, I added couple of compatibility shims (just enough to build
>> the previous source trees) but it is not 100% compatible with the
>> old version.  OTOH, this version is far more popular and
>> third-party sources often require this version.  Most
>> importantly, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Mac OS X already adopted
>> it for the same reason.
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> 
>> Jung-uk Kim
> 
> Hi Jung-uk Kim, I brought flex 2.5.37 into DragonFly and yes, it
> caused quite a few ports to break.  However, in many cases I added
> patches to dports to restore their building.
> 
> The first place people should check when trying to fix breakage is 
> dports in case that I already came up with a fix.

Can you please explain the most common incompatibilities you
experienced from dports?

FYI, I have added these two shims for FreeBSD:

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/250877
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/250878

With these two shims, I was able to build older FreeBSD source trees
just fine.  Without them, I needed patches like this:

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/250227

Thanks!

Jung-uk Kim
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