The flex package

Package announcement

Date: Thu,  3 Apr 2003 16:16:50 -0800 (PST)
From: noreply@freshmeat.net
To: noreply@freshmeat.net
Subject: [fmII] Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator 2.5.31 released (Development branch)

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The changes in this release are as follows:
The --enable-maintainer-mode configure switch was removed. yylineno is
per-buffer in reentrant scanners. A new %top directive was added. m4
is used to generate scanners. Automatic stack management has been
added for input buffers. yy namespace cleanups were made, along with
other bugfixes and portability fixes.

Project description:
Flex is a tool for generating programs that recognize lexical patterns
in text. There are many applications for Flex, including writing
compilers in conjunction with GNU Bison. Flex is a free
implementation of the well known Lex program. It features a Lex
compatibility mode, and also provides several new features such as
exclusive start conditions.

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Source and support files

 Name                           Last modified          Size Description

 flex-2.5.31.tar.gz             2003-04-01T16:58     834 kB flex version 2.5.31
 flex-2.5.27.tar.gz             2003-01-22T19:35     777 kB flex version 2.5.27
 flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz             1997-07-27T04:00     372 kB flex version 2.5.4a

All of these files are also available from /mnt/n.ml.org/site.dist/flex/

for i in site.dist site.archive; do mkdir -p /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} && mount peanutbutter.n.ml.org:/export/${i} /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} -o tcp,rsize=32768,intr; done

bash /mnt/n.ml.org/site.dist/build.sh flex 2.5.31
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Dependencies

 Name                           Last modified          Size Description

 byacc                          2002-02-22T05:00          - The byacc package

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for i in site.dist site.archive; do mkdir -p /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} && mount peanutbutter.n.ml.org:/export/${i} /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} -o tcp,rsize=32768,intr; done

Dependents

 Name                           Last modified          Size Description

 linux-pam                      2002-09-23T17:56          - The linux-pam package
 openafs                        2006-04-27T17:24          - The openafs package

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for i in site.dist site.archive; do mkdir -p /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} && mount peanutbutter.n.ml.org:/export/${i} /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} -o tcp,rsize=32768,intr; done

Extra package information

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 freshmeat                      -                         - freshmeat.net: Project details for flex