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From: Gerrit Haase <gerrit.haase@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: flex package POSIX violation
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 14:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+Fg1xZxhGnzEw_=FGi8sRq-iHSMtcfHYoZOGz7HRtVBBZowVg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a49530b.1d0b9d0a.17c20.f7f6@mx.google.com>

2017-12-31 22:13 GMT+01:00 Steven Penny writes:
> 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


Maybe to 'request' something is not the best approach to resolve your issue?

A better way to handle issues like this would be:
you provide a patch to handle the issue and the maintainer of the
package may then decide to incorporate your patch.


Thanks.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-05 14:37 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
2017-12-31 22:34   ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-12-31 23:43 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2018-01-05 14:37 ` Gerrit Haase [this message]
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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