From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Oct 27 16:28:39 2000
Subject: flex version
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "'octave-maintainers at octave dot org'" <octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:28:34 -0500

On 27-Oct-2000, I wrote:

| It would be better, but it was easier to just make the check in lex.l
| using flex macros.

Thinking about it a bit more, I'm not sure that it is worth writing a
configure check for this if you are just going to check the version
number, since what is really needed is a check to make sure that flex
has the required feature(s) or doesn't have the bug(s) that prompted
me to require 2.5.4.  Unfortunately, I don't have a record of that,
only the following lame-o ChangeLog entry, which doesn't help much.

  Fri Feb 21 15:35:18 1997  John W. Eaton  <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>

	  * lex.l: Require flex 2.5 or later (we really want 2.5.4 or later,
	  but there seems to be no good way to check the patchlevel).

jwe