On Wed, Oct 21 2009, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:18 -0400, Eric Laganowski wrote:
>> Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> Re bison/yacc: I tried both, byacc and 'bison -y'
>> Re flex: What is the requirement for flex from selinux perspective? Is
>> it known what build of flex is "known good"?
>
> My impression is that one of the patches carried by the distributions
> for flex is needed for checkpolicy to work, but no one has ever fully
> investigated the precise dependency - people just grab the Fedora srpm
> and apply those patches to flex, and then rebuild checkpolicy and it
> works. I haven't seen any complaints from Debian or Gentoo so I presume
> that they also carry the same patches for flex.
>
> flex -V here also shows 2.5.35. But there are three patches in the
> Fedora package. Attached.
Debian currently carries 13 (though 3 of them need to be
squashed together) patches against 2.5.35. I can make them available if
there is interest.
manoj
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