On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Greg Smith<gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:
> I got bit by this tonight as part of testing a patch on CentOS 5, which like
> RHEL 5 still ships flex 2.5.4. I just wrote a little guide on how to grab a
> source RPM from a Fedora version and install it to work around that problem:
> http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2009/07/upgrading-flex-from-source-rpm-to.html
>
> Kind of annoying, but as special software you have to install on a server
> just to build something from CVS goes it's only a minor inconvenience.
*sigh*. So does OS X Tiger. And (unsurprisingly), CentOS 4, which is
what we use for all our Linux build servers.
This is getting quite tiresome :-(
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Dave Page
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