From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: flex package POSIX violation
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 22:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d6f4622-f4c2-b48c-7ba3-b353edd11bce@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a49530b.1d0b9d0a.17c20.f7f6@mx.google.com>
On 31/12/2017 22:13, Steven Penny wrote:
> The POSIX standard, at least since 1997 [1], requires the presence of a
> "lex"
> utility.
>
> Most systems (including Cygwin) provide a Lex implementation via the "flex"
> package. However with other OS, a "lex -> flex" symlink is provided,
> whereas the
> Cygwin package does not.
>
> Please resolve this, thanks.
>
> [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/lex.html
>
>
Flex is NOT 100% Posix compliant.
See Info on
20 Incompatibilities with Lex and Posix
as upstream does not provide the link "lex -> flex"
I am reluctant to do differently.
Regards
Marco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-31 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-31 22:00 Steven Penny
2017-12-31 22:12 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2017-12-31 22:34 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-12-31 23:43 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2018-01-05 14:37 ` Gerrit Haase
2018-01-06 0:17 ` Steven Penny
[not found] <CANnLRdjLkgpsw6ogipAVaAsjKm+fRruBFvizK-sgSNiXYWrijg@mail.gmail.com>
2018-01-01 0:26 ` Steven Penny
2018-01-01 0:55 ` Stephen John Smoogen
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