win_flex not working for parallel invocations

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win_flex not working for parallel invocations

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: Jörg Bornemann

Created: 2012-11-22

Updated: 2012-11-26

Jörg Bornemann - 2012-11-22

Hi there!

We (Qt project) are using win_flex in our Windows build. We noticed that
it doesn't work well when multiple win_flex instances are running in
parallel. This is because every instance uses the same names for
temporary files. We've patched win_flex to fix the issue for us.

The fix can be viewed here:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,40348

Any chance to get this change upstream?

Cheers,

Jörg Bornemann

Last edit: Alex Zhondin 2012-11-26

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- Alex Zhondin - 2012-11-26
  
  Hi Jörg!
  
  Thank you for using win_flex_bison tools and fixing it. I've merged your patch to win_flex_bison code. By the way you don't need to investigate and fix problems there, just let me know and I will do the job with pleasure.
  Next day I will update download binaries.
  
  P.S. I also added option to set temporary files directory - FLEX_TMP_DIR environment variable. May be helpful sometimes.
  
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