[Flex-announce] flex 2.6.4 released

[Announcements of f. r. L. volume. <fle...@li...>]

Flex 2.6.4 is now available.

Flex is the Fast Lexical Analyzer generator. flex is a tool for
generating scanners: programs which recognize lexical patterns in
text.

The following people made contributions to this release of flex:

Explorer09 <exp...@gm...>
Christos Zoulas <chr...@zo...>
Will Estes <wes...@gm...>
Simon Sobisch <sim...@we...>
Demi Obenour <dem...@gm...>
Thomas Klausner <wi...@Ne...>
Jeff Smith <why...@gm...>
Alastair Hughes <hob...@gm...>
Harald van Dijk <ha...@gi...>
Tobias Klauser <tkl...@di...>
Todd C. Miller <Tod...@co...>
luistung <don...@gm...>
viktor.shepel <she...@bi...>

Here are the compressed sources:
  https://github.com/westes/flex/releases/download/v2.6.4/flex-2.6.4.tar.gz   (1.4MB)
  https://github.com/westes/flex/releases/download/v2.6.4/flex-2.6.4.tar.lz   (824KB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  https://github.com/westes/flex/releases/download/v2.6.4/flex-2.6.4.tar.gz.sig
  https://github.com/westes/flex/releases/download/v2.6.4/flex-2.6.4.tar.lz.sig

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

2882e3179748cc9f9c23ec593d6adc8d  flex-2.6.4.tar.gz
a04b480d7455f0f5bdc6d36959e08e4c  flex-2.6.4.tar.lz
fafece095a0d9890ebd618adb1f242d8908076e1  flex-2.6.4.tar.gz
ec5653f673ec8f6e3f07d5e730008cee54d2ce02  flex-2.6.4.tar.lz

[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:

  gpg --verify flex-2.6.4.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys wes...@gm...

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Automake 1.15
  Autoconf 2.69
  Bison 3.0.4
  Libtoolize 2.4.6
  Gettext 0.19.7

NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.4 (2017-05-06) [stable]

** build

*** The indent target now knows about flex's new (as of 2.6.0)
    layout. The indent rules it would apply are not correct and do
    need to be fixed.

*** The files included in the flex distribution are now built by the
    version of flex that is included in the distribution.

*** The configure script has a better idea of which headers are
    required to build flex. It will also error when missing functions
    are detected.

*** We have lowered the versions of automake and gettext that
    configure.ac lists as required for building flex. In autogen.sh,
    we now check for how to call libtoolize and use what we find in
    the rest of the script.

*** Since files in lib/ are picked up as needed by src/, we no longer
    generate a Makefile for that directory.

*** Flex can be cross compiled.

** documentation

*** Some typos were removed from the manual.

** scanner

*** Some minor performance enhancements.

*** We honor user defined yy_* macros again. We are also more careful
    to not leak macro definitions into header files.

*** A number of portability fixes were introduced so building flex is
    more reliable on more platforms. Additionally, outdated function
    calls were removed.

*** When building the flex executable itself, %# comments from
    flex.skl are removed when generating the C source code array. This
    reduces the size of flex.

** test suite

*** All scripts in the test suite are now run by $(SHELL) and the
    needed portability fixes have been included.

*** Test suite dependencies are handled much better. This only matters
    if you are actively developing flex or its test suite.

*** Tests that depend on platform dependent features now properly skip
    when those platforms are not present.

*** When running "make check", you can now pas V=0 to silence more of
    the build. This is useful when you're less connncerned about the
    details of building and linking the test programs themselves.



-- 
Will Estes
wes...@gm...