On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:59:28PM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > On sid, I recommend installing flex-old. > > I observed previously that for other reasons the old version is also > required for the release manager to use when building release tarballs > <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-06/msg01048.html>. This requirement > remains unless the problem with the portability of the generated code has > been fixed, as GCC is unlikely to presume a C99 library on the host for > another decade.
As you can see in the discussion at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200306/msg00837.html It has not been fixed, and probably will not be. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer