Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: flex-old - Legacy version of flex, a tool for creating scanners https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220381 ------- Additional Comments From rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-01-05 23:48 EST ------- (In reply to comment #8) > Thanks for input, folks. I posted updated files to the same url. My comments > follow. > > > libfl basically provides a single function > The library provides the function 'main'. It's useful for linking with pure > scanner, for testing purposes I suppose. Yes and no. The real function that matters is yywrap() It's the fall-back/default yywrap lex-generated scanners use if the scanner doesn't provide one of its own. Most real-world scanner do and there do not link against libfl. > > > However, what is an issue, is the name of this library > I doubt any package links with -lfl at all. Sorry, you're in error. - All flex-based packages using the default yywrap do need to link against it. You so far don't see this, because they link against it statically. - All autoconf scripts using AC_PROG_LEX link against it. > I have never used it personally But I have and still am, for more than a decade. > The library is useful for > development of lexer. I think it will be more often fired from command line > than from script, thus I chose rather less invasive variant "-lfl-compat", as > opposed to "-lfl -L/usr/lib/flex-somesuffix". I have to disagree again. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review