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The flex program generates scanners.
Scanners are programs which can recognize lexical patterns in text.
Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output.
The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable.
The executable searches through its input for occurrences of the regular expressions.
When a match is found, it executes the corresponding C code.
Flex was designed to work with both Yacc and Bison, and is used by many programs as part of their build process.
You should install flex if you are going to use your system for application development.
flex: A tool for creating scanners (loxical pattern recognizers)
The flex program generates scanners.Scanners are programs which can recognize lexical patterns in text.
Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output.
The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable.
The executable searches through its input for occurrences of the regular expressions.
When a match is found, it executes the corresponding C code.
Flex was designed to work with both Yacc and Bison, and is used by many programs as part of their build process.
You should install flex if you are going to use your system for application development.
| Name: | flex |
| Release: | 1:2.6.4-6mamba |
| Group: | Development/Tools |
| Maintainer: | silvan |
| License: | BSD |
| Size: | 365.77 kB |
| Upstream URL: | https://github.com/westes/flex |
| Build time: | 2024-04-19 14:04:56 |
Binary packages and requirements
| x86_64 | aarch64 | i586 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built RPMS | flex flex-debug libfl libfl-devel | flex flex-debug libfl libfl-devel | flex flex-debug libfl libfl-devel |
| Build requirements | bash [1] glibc-devel [1] help2man[>=0:1.33.1] [1] indent[>=0:2.2.9] [1] texinfo [1] | bash [1] glibc-devel [1] help2man[>=0:1.33.1] [1] indent[>=0:2.2.9] [1] texinfo [1] | bash [1] glibc-devel [1] help2man[>=0:1.33.1] [1] indent[>=0:2.2.9] [1] texinfo [1] |
History of changes
| Date | Packager | Release | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-18 | silvan | 2.6.4-6mamba | - remove conflicting info dir file |
| 2024-04-17 | silvan | 2.6.4-5mamba | - URL updated (closes #1) |
| 2020-11-27 | silvan | 2.6.4-4mamba | - rebuilt with debug package |
| 2017-11-28 | silvan | 2.6.4-3mamba | - patched to fix segfault with glibc 2.26 |
| 2017-10-18 | davide | 2.6.4-2mamba | - rebuild for removing the linker dependency to libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.26) |
| 2017-10-16 | silvan | 2.6.4-1mamba | - update to 2.6.4 |
| 2016-12-17 | silvan | 2.6.1-1mamba | - downgrade to 2.6.1, 2.6.2 is too buggy, bump epoch |
| 2016-10-29 | autodist | 2.6.2-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2016-06-04 | silvan | 2.6.1-1mamba | - update to 2.6.1 |
| 2015-12-26 | silvan | 2.6.0-2mamba | - added upstream patch to fix a cxx-style comment in c code compiler warning |
