Re: About flex

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

In -current as of a couple weeks ago, we have

        {293} flex --version
        flex 2.5.35
        {294}

So, -current has long -- options ...

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Rui-Xiang Guo wrote:

> Hi, all.
> It seems that the versions of flex are diffenent between 5.1_RC4 and -current.
> It does not support '--foo' options in 5.1_RC4 -
> % flex --backup
> flex: unknown flag '-'.  For usage, try
>        flex --help
> And in man page, it shows -
> [...]
> OPTIONS
>       flex has the following options:
>
>       -b     Generate backing-up information to lex.backup.  This is  a  list
>              of scanner states which require backing up and the input charac-
> [...]
>
> But I find that the '--backup' exists in the -current man page, so it shall be
> support in -current, right? (I have no -current box to try.)
>
> Will it be pulled into the next RC or formal release?
>
> BTW, it seems that we miss the builtin.mk file in devel/flex of pkgsrc.
>
> -rxg
>
> !DSPAM:4cad57902432014320790!

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