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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
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Built RPMSflex
flex-debug
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Build requirementsbash [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
DatePackagerReleaseDescription
2024-04-18silvan2.6.4-6mamba- remove conflicting info dir file
2024-04-17silvan2.6.4-5mamba- URL updated (closes #1)
2020-11-27silvan2.6.4-4mamba- rebuilt with debug package
2017-11-28silvan2.6.4-3mamba- patched to fix segfault with glibc 2.26
2017-10-18davide2.6.4-2mamba- rebuild for removing the linker dependency to libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.26)
2017-10-16silvan2.6.4-1mamba- update to 2.6.4
2016-12-17silvan2.6.1-1mamba- downgrade to 2.6.1, 2.6.2 is too buggy, bump epoch
2016-10-29autodist2.6.2-1mamba- automatic version update by autodist
2016-06-04silvan2.6.1-1mamba- update to 2.6.1
2015-12-26silvan2.6.0-2mamba- added upstream patch to fix a cxx-style comment in c code compiler warning