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Re: flex package POSIX violation
- From: Gerrit Haase <gerrit dot haase at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:37:11 +0100
- Subject: Re: flex package POSIX violation
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2017-12-31 22:13 GMT+01:00 Steven Penny writes:
> The POSIX standard, at least since 1997 [1], requires the presence of a
> "lex"
> utility.
>
> Most systems (including Cygwin) provide a Lex implementation via the "flex"
> package. However with other OS, a "lex -> flex" symlink is provided, whereas
> the
> Cygwin package does not.
>
> Please resolve this, thanks.
>
> [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/lex.html
Maybe to 'request' something is not the best approach to resolve your issue?
A better way to handle issues like this would be:
you provide a patch to handle the issue and the maintainer of the
package may then decide to incorporate your patch.
Thanks.
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