[Bug 220381] Review Request: flex-old - Legacy version of flex, a tool for creating scanners

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Summary: Review Request: flex-old - Legacy version of flex, a tool for creating scanners


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220381





------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2006-12-30 00:31 EST -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> This builds fine for me; a few comments:

> W: compat-flex devel-file-in-non-devel-package /usr/lib64/libfl-compat.a
>   Static libraries are generally frowned upon, but I don't know enough about
> just how flex is used to say whether this is completely unacceptable.
Well, libfl basically provides a single function. One, most real world
lex-scanners normally implement themselves (i.e. link against statically) and
won't use anyway.

However, what is an issue, is the name of this library: libfl-compat.a.

This will break all packages because they expect to link against libfl. IMO, it
must remain libfl. 

Similar considerations apply to the location of FlexScanner.h.

I.e. instead of playing games with directories named "compat" and renaming libs,
I'd prefer to see the flex's headers and link-libraries files (*.h,*.a) to be
installed into a versioned directory, e.g. 
%{libdir}/flex-<version> 
%{includedir}/flex-<version>

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