Csup cvsmode build discussion

Philip Paeps philip at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 16 05:43:27 PST 2008


On 2008-01-16 10:33:02 (+0100), Ulf Lilleengen <lulf at stud.ntnu.no> wrote:
> Now, the base system already have flex, but the flex version in base is heavily
> outdated (version 2.5.4 versus 2.5.34 in ports) and does not support reentrancy.
> Is there a reason why it's outdated? What I can think of is that it is either
> unmaintained, or that developers want it to disappear from base.

I think it's just unmaintained in base ...  I wonder what it would take to
update it.  /me takes a look

 - Philip

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