Thread: New flex

Debian has just upgraded flex to 2.5.31.  This breaks the contrib
modules that use flex (cube, seg and tsearch) and probably also the main
scanner.

Is anyone looking at changing the lexer sources to work with the new
flex?

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Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> Debian has just upgraded flex to 2.5.31.

2.5.31 is not ready for prime time --- it does not even compile on
HPUX, Solaris, nor probably many other Unixen; and it seems to break
compatibility with the POSIX lex spec.  See
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=32691

> Is anyone looking at changing the lexer sources to work with the new
> flex?

If I could compile it, I might think about investigating such issues...
in the meantime I suggest backing off to a less bleeding-edge flex.
        regards, tom lane