[Flex-help] flex soname change

[Rich B. <ric...@or...>]

Hi,

I'm in the process of updating the version of flex we have in Solaris
to 2.6.1 and noticed that the library SONAME is now libfl.so.2
(was libfl.so.1 in the version we've currently got).

I've looked through the NEWS file but was unable to determine why it
was bumped. Are the two versions binary / ABI compatible? In other
words, for binary compatibility  can I provide a sym-link from libfl.so.1
to libfl.so.2 (really libfl.so.2.0.)?

Thanks.