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FS#10886 - flex missing dependencies (m4)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by milan (hrabi) - Friday, 11 July 2008, 14:44 GMT
Last edited by Paul Mattal (paul) - Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 17:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Paul Mattal (paul)
Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

flex needs m4, but it is not in dependencies. Result in "flex: fatal internal error, exec failed" w/o m4.

Additional info:
* flex 2.5.33


This task depends upon

Closed by  Paul Mattal (paul)
Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 17:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Implemented in svn.
Comment by Paul Mattal (paul) - Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 12:40 GMT
What triggers the above error message? I would like to replicate the behavior.
Comment by milan (hrabi) - Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 14:32 GMT
Just running flex without m4.

$ cat << EOF > test.l
%%
test printf("ee");
EOF

$ sudo pacman -R m4
$ flex -o test.c test.l; echo $?
flex: fatal internal error, exec failed
1
$ sudo pacman -S m4
$ flex -o test.c test.l; echo $?
0

Comment by Paul Mattal (paul) - Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 17:13 GMT
Added for the next rebuild:

http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/flex/trunk/PKGBUILD?r1=3606&r2=5368

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