On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:52:11PM -0700, Earle F. Philhower III wrote: >Howdy Harold... > >At 08:26 PM 9/15/2003 -0400, you wrote: >>I am working on building a release for Cygwin 1.5.3. I am getting some >>fun errors (listed below) related to changes to flex. I would appreciate >>any help in pointing out how these problems should be fixed. Please note >>that this is a build of the XFree86 4.3.0.1 CVS branch. > >I would suggest that the flex package that's installed by Cygwin 1.5.3 is >NOT valid. > >I have just d/l'd and installed the version of flex straight from >ftp.gnu.org, and it compiles everything exactly as before, pswrap and the >old lex grammer file winprefslex.l. Some of the header or support files >must have been munged. The version I used was: >$ flex --version >flex 2.5.31
That's funny because that is the version that is released for cygwin. AFAICT, the latest version on ftp.gnu.org, in /pub/gnu/non-gnu/flex, is flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz. cgf