[HEADSUP] flex/lex updated to 2.5.37 (from flex.sourceforge.net)

[John Marino]

On 5/21/2013 22:03, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
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> Please note flex/lex was updated to 2.5.37 from flex.sourceforge.net and
> __FreeBSD_version was bumped to 1000033.
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> FYI, I added couple of compatibility shims (just enough to build the
> previous source trees) but it is not 100% compatible with the old
> version.  OTOH, this version is far more popular and third-party
> sources often require this version.  Most importantly, NetBSD,
> DragonFly BSD, and Mac OS X already adopted it for the same reason.
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> Cheers!
>
> Jung-uk Kim

Hi Jung-uk Kim,
I brought flex 2.5.37 into DragonFly and yes, it caused quite a few 
ports to break.  However, in many cases I added patches to dports to 
restore their building.

The first place people should check when trying to fix breakage is 
dports in case that I already came up with a fix.

Regards,
John