Re: Slink to potato upgrade
Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
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> Previously Kevin Dalley wrote:
> > Standard Unix lex produces C source code which does not compile under
> > glibc2.1.
>
> True, and it's a one or two-line patch in the lex source or in sources
> that lex generates to fix that. So why not file a simple bugreport
> and ask the maintainer to fix it soon?
Because there isn't a maintainer. Debian does not distribute Unix
lex. As far as I know, it is not open source. The only solution is
to report the lex bug to each Unix company which distributes Unix
lex. I believe that flex, which we do maintain, works fine.
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Kevin Dalley
SETI Institute
kevin@seti.org
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