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Re: Bug#196800: flex mustn't assume stdint.h is available on allplatforms



Hello,

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:35:53AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:51:14 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> said: 
> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:24:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> Flex no longer has support for non conforming implementations; and
> >> thus no longer has support for platforms that so not have stdint.h.
> >> In other words, behaviour of flex scanners on non conforming
> >> implementations is undefined.
> >>
> >> Please use flex-old for platforms where the implementation is not
> >> up to date.
> 
> > these platforms include platforms like Solaris 9 ...
> 
> 	Which I donot care about. (Or is Solaris 9 now a re;eased
>  Debian architecture?)

I am upstream for some programs that I want to run on non-Debian
platforms, too.  Does the above mean that I should not use the
"flex" package from unstable, then?

A flex package which produces non-portable code would considerably
degrade Debian's usefulness as a development platform.

Jochen
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