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  • From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Flex FYI . . .
  • Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:28:51 -0800

On Monday 08 March 2004 5:08 pm, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:01:50PM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:
> > > I just determined that the devel upgrade of flex to 2.5.31 back in Jan.
> > > has been keeping a few of my programs from casting correctly. I
> > > downgraded back
> > >
> > > to the 2.5.27 version and, so far, they have all been completing
> > > successfully. Just thought I'd pass on the news.
> >
> > Anyone against reverting? If not, I'd like to see it reverted in all
> > grimoires.
> >
> > Jason, can you give us the names of the packages that failed? It may be a
> > good idea to either fix them and send a patch upstream or let the
> > maintainer know that their package is broken with the newest flex.
>
> I think it can stay in devel, although that means all of us with devel
> as primary grimoire need to be careful when updating.
> The newer flex has been out quite some time, does it still break
> xfree86 4.4?

I was casting the 4.4.0 version when I discovered the problem and my (at
least) fix.

root@jason:~# gaze version xfree86
Grimoire Section Spell Grimoire Version Installed Version
-------- ------- ----- ---------------- -----------------
devel x11-libs xfree86 4.4.0 4.4.0

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