My bad - didn't look closely enough. I'll take a look at it and see if there is 
anything we can do.

On Feb 20, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:

> Ralph,
> 
> Are you sure this is a flex-generated file?
> I am looking at opal/util/show_help_lex.l in the svn trunk and it certainly 
> looks human-generated to me.
> Please clue me in if I am missing something.
> 
> The warning is from flex when processing the .l file, NOT from the 
> compilation of the flex-generated .c file.
> 
> -Paul
> 
> On 2/19/2012 7:55 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
>> We get that everywhere, unfortunately - it comes from flex and is outside 
>> our control as the file it complains about is actually generated by flex 
>> itself. Unfortunately, flex is no longer maintained, and so nothing has been 
>> done to correct it.
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 19, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:
>> 
>>> I've not checked any other systems, but building the trunk on OpenBSD and 
>>> FreeBSD (w/ flex-2.5.4) I see the following:
>>>>  LEX    show_help_lex.c
>>>> "[srcdir]/opal/util/show_help_lex.l", line 65: warning, dangerous trailing 
>>>> context
>>> I found this message in the flex documentation, and it mentions that the 
>>> POSIX draft for LEX leaves such cases undefined.
>>> http://flex.sourceforge.net/manual/Limitations.html
>>> 
>>> -Paul
>>> 
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