Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: fix "parse error" with Debian's flex

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From: Greg Stark <gsstark@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:27:18 -0000
> I guess so..........one of my recent Debian updates must have changed the
> version. Looking at the Debian flex packaging changelog, flex version was
> 2.5.4a up until early April when it changed to 2.5.31.

2.5.31 was a massive API change. Until ethereal is ported to the new flex, if
ever, you could try building with the flex from the flex-old package.

How to write sane dependencies given this situation is another question.

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greg