Re: flex [was mod_python 3.2.0-BETA available for testing]

2005-08-26 Thread Jim Gallacher
Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote: OK, here is the flex scoop - as the the docs point out, anything before 2.5.31 is not reentrant and I think even uses a slightly different interface so older flex won't even process the psp_parser.l file correctly. Looking at Fedora Core 4, it still has

Re: flex [was mod_python 3.2.0-BETA available for testing]

2005-08-26 Thread Nick
Jim, I don't think it's too verbose, but maybe you could delay it to the end of the configure script so you don't have to either interrupt with control-C or scroll back to see what went wrong. Here's another idea: Fail the flex test fairly silently (e.g. just no), but fall back to a script

Re: flex [was mod_python 3.2.0-BETA available for testing]

2005-08-26 Thread Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Nick wrote: Here's another idea: Fail the flex test fairly silently (e.g. just no), but fall back to a script that generates a nice, verbose error message explaining the situation. That way, when the user tries to call make after modifying the .l file, the fake flex

Re: flex [was mod_python 3.2.0-BETA available for testing]

2005-08-18 Thread Jim Gallacher
Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote: OK, here is the flex scoop - as the the docs point out, anything before 2.5.31 is not reentrant and I think even uses a slightly different interface so older flex won't even process the psp_parser.l file correctly. Looking at Fedora Core 4, it still has