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Subject: new version of flex
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>Number:         650
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       Current flex is outdated
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    peter
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug  2 11:50:01 PDT 1995
>Closed-Date:    Sat Sep 21 08:59:26 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:  Tue Nov 27 18:42:33 PST 2001
>Originator:     Michael Reifenberger
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950611 i386
>Organization:
Bye!
----
Michael Reifenberger
>Environment:

	
current

>Description:

	
As the subject say, we should bring a newer flex in like NetBSD.

>How-To-Repeat:

	
Try to compile postgres-beta0.03 as BSD44_derived.

>Fix:
	
	

Look into my homedir on thud ~mr/newlex.tar.gz
It contains a diff for the old -> new flex or go to /usr/src
and install the lexsrc.tar.

It extracts to lib/libl and usr.bin/lex.
It is obtained from NetBSD.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->peter 
Responsible-Changed-By: scrappy 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun May 26 16:43:42 PDT 1996 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
the man responsible for such major changes to the cvs repository... 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: gpalmer 
State-Changed-When: Sat Sep 21 08:59:26 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
Up-to-date flex is now in -current 
>Unformatted:
