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

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 12:25 AM, Martin Pool wrote:

> When I build ethereal's CVS head under Debian unstable, I get a "parse
> error" when building ascend-scanner.  For reasons I don't fully
> understand, the .c file is somehow getting a macro definition of
> ascendwrap() generated by flex, plus a function definition from
> ascend-scanner.l.  I suspect the behaviour differs between different
> flex versions because the same code works for other people.
>
> Anyhow, this patch seems to fix it.

Removing "ascendwrap()" completely fixes it, too - ascend-scanner.l has 
had "%option noyywrap" for a while, which made "ascendwrap()" no longer 
necessary, but when that was added "ascendwrap()" wasn't removed.

I just checked in a change to remove it.