Re: (fwd) Tetex with Flex 2.5.31
On 02.01.04 Thomas Esser (te@dbs.uni-hannover.de) wrote:
Hi,
> > Down here in debian-tetex-maint we've got a suggestion how to work
> > around the incompatibility between the new flex and the old
> > tetex-src-2.0.2/texk/web2c/omegafonts/pl.l. Suggested patch attached.
> > Atsuhito has tried it out and said it's working fine.
>
> Adding -l does not work with all versions of lex. But, it should always
> work for flex, so I finally came up with adding
>
> # Work around a problem with Flex Version 2.5.31 which needs -l flag.
> # Since all versions of flex support -l, don't check for the
> # specific version.
> test "x$LEX" = xflex && LEX='flex -l'
>
> after AC_PROG_LEX in texk/web2c/configure.in.
>
Thanks for response and your excellent work! So the temporary patch
for #191942 can probably be taken out after next teTeX-release
Hilmar
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