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1 flex NEWS
7 *** The indent target now knows about flex's new (as of 2.6.0)
11 *** The files included in the flex distribution are now built by the
12 version of flex that is included in the distribution.
15 required to build flex. It will also error when missing functions
19 configure.ac lists as required for building flex. In autogen.sh,
26 *** Flex can be cross compiled.
39 *** A number of portability fixes were introduced so building flex is
43 *** When building the flex executable itself, %# comments from
44 flex.skl are removed when generating the C source code array. This
45 reduces the size of flex.
53 if you are actively developing flex or its test suite.
66 *** several bug fixes resolved problems introduced in recent flex
77 the build system when building flex. The default
78 "--enable-bootstrap" behavior is to build flex, then to use that
79 flex to build flex again. With --disable-bootstrap, the scanner is
87 *** It is now possible to build flex without building the accompanying
92 included in the build/installation targets of flex since it was
105 ** flex internals
109 *** flex should now handle quoting when mixed with m4 processing correctly
111 *** flex handles `[[' and `]]' correctly
113 *** flex no longer generates non-ANSI code
130 of warning-related flags which is useful in testing flex
144 ** flex resources
146 …flex project is now hosted at github. Consider this a "period of transition". In particular, you s…
148 *** New releases of flex are to be found at https://github.com/westes/flex/releases.
150 ** flex internals
152 *** Flex now uses more modern and more standard names for variable types. There's more work to be d…
160 …flex distribution, rather than relying on the build system's flex header , which might not be inst…
164 ** Building flex
166 …flex source is now built with the current version of flex. Occasionally this had to be done manual…
168 *** The pdf version of the manual is no longer distributed with flex, although if you have the texi…
188 *** A number of compiler warnings were addressed, so flex generated scanners should be quieter unde…
206 ** Flex Internals
208 *** flex is now organized into subdirectories. This keeps the tree neater at the top level and puts…
214 …ranslation project. "make -f po/Makefile getpo" from the top level of the flex tree will fetch the…
218 * flex version 2.5.39 released 2014-03-26
234 ** Import flex into git. See
235 git://flex.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/flex/flex.
237 ** Fix make install target to not fail when the flex++ program is
259 ** the flex distribution is now built with automake 1.10.1 and automake
264 ** fixed bug that prevented flex from accepting certain comments in the
280 ** The flex program now parses multiple short concatenated options (resolves bug
285 ** flex now provides for a libfl_pic.a compiled with position
286 independent code. Particularly useful when including a flex scanner
292 ** flex better escapes filenames with special characters in them
325 ** flex man page and flex manual in pdf now distributed in the flex
330 ** flex no longer comes with an rpm spec file
332 ** flex development now happens with automake 1.9.6
336 ** all flex resources are now to be found from the website at
337 http://flex.sourceforge.net/
360 ** flex now uses m4 to generate scanners; while this means that
361 scanners are more readable, it means that flex requires m4 to be
368 ** moved the flex documentation to a new doc/ subdirectory
374 ** flex is now hosted at sourceforge
378 ** Flex now warns if always-interactive is specified with fast or full
382 ** flex now works with recent bison versions
390 ** yyleng has proper declarations now; this caused flex to generate
393 ** the flex distribution now includes a spec file suitable for use
402 ** flex now warns about pattern ranges that might be ambiguous when
408 ** flex now uses flex_int*_t types. For C99 systems, they are just the
437 ** the constant FLEX_BETA is defined if flex is a beta release
458 ** the flex.1 manpage is generated by help2man; (this has been true
461 ** flex now includes three defined constants to indicate which version
462 of flex generated a scanner (YY_FLEX_{MAJOR,MINOR,SUBMINOR}_VERSION)
464 ** flex tries its best to output only the relevant portions of the
474 ** A flex scanner has the ability to save the DFA tables to a file,
486 ** flex can, to some extent, diagnose where internal problems occur
490 **Flex generates C99 defs now; see YY_TRADITIONAL_FUNC_DEFS in the
518 ** flex is indented by GNU indent (this was done earlier but not
546 if you want to change the skeleton or if you're doing flex development)
556 ** the flex-generated header file now tries to be smarter about
585 ** bison is no longer needed to build flex; If you are building flex
618 ** ability to choose which memory functions are used in flex
637 you're doing flex development.)
640 --help reports the bug-reporting address for flex
647 ** flex can now be built in a separate directory
683 flex from generating #include <unistd.h> on systems that don't
729 *** flex.1 removed from distribution
731 ** flex no longer generates C-language scanners with C++-style
734 ** flex now generates scanners in c++ which are compatible with
737 ** flex input scanner now recognizes '\r' as an EOL character