Bug#191942: tetex-bin: Fails to build with current flex

[Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>]

Daniel Schepler writes:
> Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> writes:

>> Is this really a bug of tetex?  I'm not sure but there is
>> a bug for flex #188872.  Is this irrelevant?

> No, that bug doesn't look relevant to me.  The relevant change in the
> new flex is that it's no longer valid to call unput() from the section
> after %%, only in actions or in the %{ ... %} section.

Manoj Srivastava submitted a bug to flex (724647) stating that this
behaviour breaks POSIX conformance.  I see little reason to mess with
pl.l just because flex got broken for (hopefully) a single short-lived
release.  Instead, I'd recommend copying the lex.c-dist to lex.c
before compiling.  That way, you won't need lex at all unless you
change pl.l.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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