From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 120875 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2017 22:47:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 120866 invoked by uid 89); 31 Dec 2017 22:47:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Stephen, meet X-HELO: mail-lf0-f46.google.com Received: from mail-lf0-f46.google.com (HELO mail-lf0-f46.google.com) (209.85.215.46) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 22:47:15 +0000 Received: by mail-lf0-f46.google.com with SMTP id f3so16439751lfe.4 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 14:47:14 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=Tm9a/aASW9DuEEN9gWsQl3go9JvYvBzwtYpBi6UqTnE=; b=HNTjLS4wlnt/unmmrrKj7CKSwl152UhZ6Kx4yd4QHNsvDl85rcOVW7AvhwgwYb8BAq plfs8ErWmIl/Ny8NMAMDP1U2vLq+IMMRNKg2Tm7f97FHQjt6AdXLGqp2YV7uC4pBmXgD XwK0RyhY5Umz0O7d8FGwfoZPTPoeLCyAqTL8BsPLyKLgOsUeoGqph10uVM1Qbt2P4b/J fK1mL4ponuCHgF5m27/5P08m999VU7XFJiBQyKkfnmRRgOP3puk4j63eXEbc0waPhdc6 418iEr8TQvYxlVLGzBJqRQp15Co5fBvJTkF/jEsQ866dGV0sY5oNJdjJJva36LayLwZy 8efQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AKGB3mIwOf6r8GFlo8nMCrvlqhr1xRVofj5NOzOM6BbvBnhgR0vtDMzg 8EOBi2fnHQJ3hauqQw8N0/DkAZkUYo2EO9Jd9evHHQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBouTHCkxLjEZA5W8+O8jsA7ODD7g+HVwcLL+9CBggFyyalUMrENMasfKSsDPWhkQ7dsV1NwoNA0xDy54GCTWwRs= X-Received: by 10.46.18.216 with SMTP id 85mr22742125ljs.100.1514760432202; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 14:47:12 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.25.109.25 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 14:47:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5a49530b.1d0b9d0a.17c20.f7f6@mx.google.com> References: <5a49530b.1d0b9d0a.17c20.f7f6@mx.google.com> From: Stephen John Smoogen Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 23:43:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: flex package POSIX violation To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00303.txt.bz2 On 31 December 2017 at 16:13, 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. > How POSIX compliant is Cygwin supposed to be? I don't think many of the tools are 100% POSIX compliant but are good enough so does making the symlink between flex and lex make it more compliant or less so because the tool doesn't meet 100% compliance? -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple