[csw-announce] NOTICE: flex/oflex

Cory Omand comand at blastwave.org
Sat Apr 23 00:54:47 CEST 2005


This morning, a newly produced 'flex' package was released to the
Blastwave catalog.  This package, version 2.5.31, included the new
flex which is hosted on SourceForge.  The older 2.5.4a version
which used to be distributed as 'flex', was renamed to 'oflex', and
moved to /opt/csw/oflex.

It was then found that the new flex, although it is the default for
many open source distributions, is not compatible with some major
software packages, such as Apache mod_ssl.  In response to this,
the flex and oflex packages were modified again.

The 'flex' package is version 2.5.4a again, residing in /opt/csw
(/opt/csw/bin/flex). The newer flex 2.5.31 is now 'flex_new',
residing in /opt/csw/flex-2.5.31 (/opt/csw/flex-2.5.31/bin/flex). 
Any software builds requiring flex 2.5.31 should ensure this
directory appears in the PATH before /opt/csw/bin.

Anyone who upgraded flex to 2.5.31, or installed oflex should back
these packages out manually, and re-install using pkg-get.

-- 
Cory Omand <comand at blastwave.org>
Blastwave




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