Re: [PATCH] flex: updated to 2.5.37

Phil Blundell
2013-05-10T11:04:06Z

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 11:32 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 12:20 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:15:10PM +0300, Bogdan Marinescu wrote:
> > > Removed the patches to flex, because they are now applied to the
> > > latest version.
> >
> > Can you check if 2.5.37 still reports flex.real when you call
> > flex --version?
> >
> > If yes, please integrate
> > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-May/039425.html
> > I'll send v2 with added ${S} in a minute
>
> I'm really not convinced we should be hacking flex to fix this. Can't
> whatever parsing is being done to extract the version be a little more
> relaxed about the name?

Or we could patch create_wrapper() to put the original binary in a
different directory (but keep the same leafname) rather than renaming it
to foo.real. That would also address Martin's other concern with flex++
not knowing its own name.

p.