I've made a new version of flex available for downloading. This updates the package to the latest version available from sourceforge. This update corrects the missing m4 dependency in the 64-bit version of flex. Thanks to Роман Донченко for the heads up about that.
The flex program generates scanners. Scanners are programs which can recognize lexical patterns in text. Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output. The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable. The executable searches through its input for occurrences of the regular expressions. When a match is found, it executes the corresponding C code. Flex was designed to work with both Yacc and Bison, and is used by many programs as part of their build process. Flex is available in tne "Devel" category. Below are the NEWS entries since the last release of flex. See the file COPYING for copying conditions. * flex version 2.5.39 ** no user visible changes in this release * version 2.5.38 released 2014-02-14 ** internationalization *** add sr translation from the translation project *** update da, es, ko, nl, pt_BR, ro, ru, sv, tr, vi, zh_CN translations from the translation project *** rename zh_tw to its proper zh_TW name * version 2.5.37 released 2012-08-03 ** Import flex into git. See git://flex.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/flex/flex. ** Fix make install target to not fail when the flex++ program is already installed ** New translations from the translation project: de, fi, pl, vi * version 2.5.36 released 2012-07-20 ** various portability fixes that quiet compiler warnings on 64-bit hosts ** various manual fixes, including correcting the name of a %option and updating some simple examples to use ANSI C syntax ** various bug fixes that prevent certain error conditions from persisting when they should not persist ** improvements to the test suite so it behaves better when linking compiled files ** new translations from the translation project: ca, da, es, fi, fr, ga, ko, pt_br, ro, ru, sv, tr, zh_cn ** the flex distribution is now built with automake 1.10.1 and automake 2.61 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple