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

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From: "Dermot Bradley" <dermot.bradley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:29:36 +0100
> At the beginning of "scanner.c", are there lines like
>
> #define yy_create_buffer df__create_buffer
> #define yy_delete_buffer df__delete_buffer
>
> ?  If not, the version of Flex in debian-testing might be mis-handling
> the "-P" flag, or handling it in ways that cause problems for
> lemonflex-tail.inc.

Nope, no such lines.

The flex version used is 2.5.31.

This box compiles ethereal fine in the past (last time I tried as a couple
of months ago).