[Flex-devel] Status of the patch for bug 182?

[Damian R. <da...@so...>]

Hi All,

I’m new to flex and only have a need to install it because it is required for building GCC from source (https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html).  My flex build on OS fails for the same reason as the December 2014 bug report 182 (http://sourceforge.net/p/flex/bugs/182/), which contains a patch that Bastien Chevreux confirmed works on 18 October 2015. Could someone please let me know the status of the submitted patch?  Will this patch or another one that fixes the problem be applied to your repository and released soon?  

FYI, I’m supporting OS X users of OpenCoarrays (https://github.com/sourceryinstitute/opencoarrays), for which a recent build of GCC is a requirement.  I’ve written a script that can install all of our prerequisites, but the script currently fails on OS X because of the aforementioned bug.  I’d very much like to avoid having to apply this patch in the script, especially because of the potential for the patch to become out-of-date over time.

Also, the priority on the bug shows as 5.  Is that a high priority or a low priority?  If it’s low, is there any chance of someone bumping the status up?  The submitted patch is approaching one year old.

Damian