* Updated: flex-2.5.35-1
2008-04-20 14:48 ` Updated tcltk-20080420-1 Christopher Faylor
@ 2008-04-20 15:09 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-07-13 18:56 ` Updated: flex-2.5.39-1 Christopher Faylor
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From: Christopher Faylor @ 2008-04-20 15:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I've made a new version of flex available for downloading. This updates
the package to the latest version available from sourceforge. flex
compiles out of the box and the program seems to pass its test suite. The
NEWS files is included below.
To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. To select the
'flex' package for the first time, click on the 'Devel' category and
then click on the 'skip' field next to 'flex' until 2.5.35-1 is
displayed.
If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
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This is the file NEWS for the flex package. It records user -visible
changes between releases of flex.
See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
* version 2.5.35 released 2008-02-26
** fixed bug that prevented flex from accepting certain comments in the
scanner file (resolves bugs #1849809 and #1849805)
** fix bug that prevented headers for all functions from being generated
(resolves bug #1628314)
** change yy_size_t to be size_t (resolves bug #1849812)
** new de, nl, pl, pt_br, vi translations from the translation project
* version 2.5.34 released 2007-12-12
** introduce yylex_init_extra; see the manual for details
** introduce %option extra-type="your_type *" (resolves bug #1744505)
** The flex program now parses multiple short concatenated options (resolves bug
#1619820). Thanks to Petr Machata of Red Hat on this issue.
** better checking after yyalloc/yyrealloc (resolves bug #1595967)
** flex now provides for a libfl_pic.a compiled with position
independent code. Particularly useful when including a flex scanner
in a shared library and with more recent versions of gcc. Thanks to the Debian project for the idea.
** SourceForge feature request #1658379: Expose YY_BUF_SIZE in the
header file.
** flex better escapes filenames with special characters in them
(resolves bug #1623600)
** a memory leak was plugged(resolves bug #1601111)
** pattern language expanded; see the manual for details on the below
highlights
*** pattern options added to specify patterns as case-insensitive or
case-sensitive
*** pattern options to specify whether the "." character should match
the newline character
*** pattern options added to allow ignoring of whitespace in patterns
*** POSIX character classes may be negated in patterns
*** patterns may now use set difference, union operators
** the manual now contains an appendix listing various common patterns
which may be useful when writing scanners
** some memory leaks were removed from the C++ scanner (but the C++
scanner is still experimental and may change radically without
notice)
** c++ scanners can now use yywrap
** added new unit test for c++ and yywrap
** portability fixes to some unit tests
** flex man page and flex manual in pdf now distributed in the flex
distribution
** new ca, vi, ga, nl translations from the translation project
** flex no longer comes with an rpm spec file
** flex development now happens with automake 1.9.6
* version 2.5.33 released 2006-2-20
** all flex resources are now to be found from the website at
http://flex.sourceforge.net/
** there was no release 2.5.32 published
** numerous bug and security fixes
** new nl, vi, sv, ro, po, ga, ca, fr, tr translations from the translation project
** upgrade to use gettext 0.12 (this now makes the "pdf" and "ps"
targets in the build system able to be run successfully)
* version 2.5.31 released 2003-4-1
** remove --enable-maintainer-mode configure option; none of the
Makefiles were using it and it can be unduely confusing
* version 2.5.30 released 2003-4-1
** yylineno is per-buffer in reentrant scanners
** added %top directive for placing code at the top of the generated
scanner; see manual for details
** flex now uses m4 to generate scanners; while this means that
scanners are more readable, it means that flex requires m4 to be
installed; see manual for details
* version 2.5.29 released 2003-3-5
** Automatic stack management for multiple input buffers in C and C++ scanners
** moved the flex documentation to a new doc/ subdirectory
** cleanups to the yy namespace
* version 2.5.28 released 2003-2-12
** flex is now hosted at sourceforge
** Fixed trailing slash bug in YY_INPUT macro def
** Flex now warns if always-interactive is specified with fast or full
* version 2.5.27 released 2003-1-21
** flex now works with recent bison versions
** new pt_br translation from the translation project
* version 2.5.26 released 2003-1-14
** Fixed table deserialization bug on big-endian archs. Patch sent from Bryce Nichols <bryce@bnichols.org>
** yyleng has proper declarations now; this caused flex to generate
unusable scanners for some programs
** the flex distribution now includes a spec file suitable for use
with rpm
** some more c++ fixes
** new es translation from the translation project
** slight tweeks to the flex_int*_t types
** flex now warns about pattern ranges that might be ambiguous when
generating a case-insensitive scanner
* version 2.5.25 released 2002-12-2
** flex now uses flex_int*_t types. For C99 systems, they are just the
int*_t types; for non-C99 systems, we just make some typedefs
** new pt_br translation from the translation project
* version 2.5.24 released 2002-11-25
* more portability fixes
** the manual continues to be updated and edited, but it's still got a
ways to go
** it is possible to have multiple c++ scanners in the same program again
** new turkish translation from the translation project
* version 2.5.23 released 2002-10-21
** more portability fixes
** the manual includes a title page and a table-of-contents when printed
** the test suite can be run with "make check" from the top-level
directory
** configure now accepts the --enable-maintainer-mode option
** gettext functionality is now only available externally
** the constant FLEX_BETA is defined if flex is a beta release
** the script create-test was not included in the distribution and it
should have been
* version 2.5.22 released 2002-10-10
** more portability fixes around how we get ahold of the integral
types; there is a constant FLEX_NEED_INTEGRAL_TYPE_DEFINITIONS
which you should define if you don't have the <inttypes.h> header
file (after you complain to your C vendor for not providing a
reasonable C environment)
** more test suite cleanups; in particular, the test suite should run
correctly when build from a different directory
** upgraded automake to 1.7 and consequently autoconf to 2.54; this
means, among other things, that there is some support for
formatting the manual in postscript and pdf in the distributed
Makefile.in (and therefore in the Makefile built by configure)
** the flex.1 manpage is generated by help2man; (this has been true
for quite a while but was not listed here)
** flex now includes three defined constants to indicate which version
of flex generated a scanner (YY_FLEX_{MAJOR,MINOR,SUBMINOR}_VERSION)
** flex tries its best to output only the relevant portions of the
skeleton when generating a scanner, thus avoiding as much
conditional compilation as possible
* version 2.5.21 released 2002-9-17
** one of the tests in the test suite broke the dist target
* version 2.5.20 released 2002-9-16
** A flex scanner has the ability to save the DFA tables to a file,
and load them at runtime when needed; see the manual for details
** Added %option bison-bridge (--bison-bridge)
** Removed %option reentrant-bison/--reentrant-bison/-Rb
** yylineno is present in all scanners; Modified nasty performance
penalty warning with yylineno in documentation
** test-table-opts is now run last in the test suite because it's so fat
** flex can, to some extent, diagnose where internal problems occur
** new translations from the translation project: fr, ca, de, ru, sv
**Flex generates C99 defs now; see YY_TRADITIONAL_FUNC_DEFS in the
manual if that's not a good thing for you
* version 2.5.19 released 2002-9-5
** prevent segfault on input lines which are longer than the allocated
space (problem report from Manoj Srivastava
<srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>)
** Changed option 'header' to 'header-file'
* version 2.5.18 released 2002-9-4
** portability fixes for integer constants and in the way the test
suite reports its results
** the test for bison was reporting bison missing when it was, in
fact, found
** if we don't find GNU indent, we're more careful when we're not
finding it
* version 2.5.17 released 2002-8-29
** more portability fixes
** updated config.sub and config.guess
** flex is indented by GNU indent (this was done earlier but not
explicitly documented)
* version 2.5.16 released 2002-8-28
** c++ scanners compile again
** there is now an indent target in the top-level Makefile; configure
checks for GNU indent which is required for proper operation of the
indent target
** some more portability fixes were made
** %options and invocation sections of manual merged
** a c++ test was added to the test suite
** we're trying to clean up more files in the test suite's make clean
targets
* version 2.5.15 released 2002-8-21
** reject-state buffer is now dynamically allocated and REJECT buffer
variables are reentrant-safe
** manual now discusses memory usage
** skeleton now processed by m4 before mkskel.sh; (this only matters
if you want to change the skeleton or if you're doing flex development)
** zh_cn translation added from translation project
** a bug that caused a segfault has now been fixed
** the test suite now respects the usual CFLAGS, etc. variables
** removed some warnings which some tests trigggered with the -s option
** the flex-generated header file now tries to be smarter about
conditionally including start conditions
** tables code omitted from generated scanner when not used
* version 2.5.14 released 2002-8-15
** the tests using the reentrant c scanner as c++ were reworked
slightly to be sure that the c++ was enforced
** de translation now included in the distribution
** various portability fixes regarding nls support, c++ include
headers, etc.
* version 2.5.13 released 2002-8-15
** the header file output with %option header is now much smaller
** Fixed type mismatch in printf in scanner skeleton
** yylex_init now reports errors
* version 2.5.12 released 2002-8-8
** updated gettext support to 0.11.5
** new fr translation from the translation project
** bison is no longer needed to build flex; If you are building flex
from a release (i.e., not from a cvs snapshot), then you don't need
to have a pre-built lex around either (unless you modify scan.l, of
course); (This has been true for some time, but was not mentioned
here.)
* version 2.5.11 released 2002-7-31
** Fixed bug where yyless did not consider yylineno
** the yylineno performance hit is now gone
** fixed some typos in the manual and we now include texinfo.tex in
the distribution
** traditional prototypes output for C scanners, controlled by a
preprocessor symbol; see documentation for details
* version 2.5.10 released 2002-7-24
** yy_globals renamed to yyscanner and yy_globals_t renamed to
yy_guts_t
** added dist-bzip2 option to Makefile.am so we now produce a bzip2'd
archive in addition to the standard gzip archive
* version 2.5.9
** new tests in test suite: test-mem-{nr,r}, test-posix,
test-posixly-correct, test-debug-{nr,r}
** made changes to work with gcc-3.2 development code
** ability to choose which memory functions are used in flex
** new yylex_destroy() function for the non-reentrant scanner
** new handling of POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable
** the test suite now has its copyrights explicitly described
** new ca, de, fr, ru, sv, tr translations
* version 2.5.8
** a new --posix option generates scanners with posix-style abc{1,3}
compatible parsing, see manual for the screwy details
* version 2.5.7
** configure.in now includes a call to AC_PREREQ to enforce the
requirement for autoconf at least 2.50 (This only effects you if
you're doing flex development.)
** configure now uses autoconf's versioning information and configure
--help reports the bug-reporting address for flex
** test suite now only reports success versus failure; reporting
skipped is problematic under the current setup
** compilation with --disable-nls now works
** flex can now be built in a separate directory
* version 2.5.6
** gettext support added (from gettext 0.11)
*** translations for ca, da, de, es, fr, ko, ru, sv, tr included
** distribution now built under automake 1.6 and autoconf 2.53
** command-line option parsing happens differently now:
*** Added long option parsing
*** Options -n and -c, previously deprecated, now simply do nothing
*** Options are now parsed left to right
** added a number of new options
*** All positive %options are now accessible from the command line
*** Added option -D, to define a preprocessor symbol
*** Added option --header=FILE to specify a C .h file to generate
*** added option --yywrap to call yywrap on EOF
*** added option --yylineno to track line count in yylineno
*** --yyclass=NAME name of C++ class when generating c++ scanners
*** for long option names which are associated with existing short
options, see accompanying documentation
*** new %option nounistd or command-line --nounistd added to prevent
flex from generating #include <unistd.h> on systems that don't
have that include file
** Support for reentrant C scanners has been added
*** Updated the manual with the new reentrant API
*** Two new options %option reentrant (-R) and
%option reentrant-bison (-Rb)
*** All globals optionally placed into struct yyglobals_t
*** All access to globals replaced by macro invocations
*** All functions optionally take one additional
argument, yy_globals
*** New style for invoking reentrant scanner:
yylex_init(void** scanner );
yylex( scanner );
yylex_destroy( scanner );
*** Added get/set functions for members of struct yy_globals_t
e.g., yyget_text, yyget_leng, etc
*** Prefix substitution added for new functions
*** Macro shortcuts to the lengthy get/set functions
provided for use in actions, e.g., yytext, yyleng, etc
*** Arbitrary, user-defined data, "yyextra", may be added to scanner
** %option nomain no longer implies %option yywrap
But the inverse is still true
** Developer test suite added
*** TESTS/ directory has been added. Users can
'make test' in the TESTS directory to execute the test suite
** Support for bison variables yylval and yylloc added
** automake support for the build process
** manual is now in texinfo/info format
*** flex.1 removed from distribution
** flex no longer generates C-language scanners with C++-style
comments
** flex now generates scanners in c++ which are compatible with
recent c++ compilers
** flex input scanner now recognizes '\r' as an EOL character
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