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| author | Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> | 2020-07-16 14:48:09 -0400 |
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| committer | Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> | 2020-07-16 14:48:09 -0400 |
| commit | f7693b83f25ef14209d83572b38f0e465be83836 (patch) | |
| tree | fa0a871a54e5891938ba3be072a6e4449e588ec3 /NEWS | |
| parent | 29ede6b96feee29c0c477d1659081bbdb82cd8b3 (diff) | |
| download | autoconf-f7693b83f25ef14209d83572b38f0e465be83836.tar.gz | |
Revise documentation for AC_PROG_LEX.
- Better explanation of the additional tests performed by this macro,
once the tool has been located.
- Update advice re using Flex to generate a bundled lex.yy.c.
- Remove text describing a bug in Automake that has long since been
corrected.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -104,9 +104,12 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. - AC_PROG_CC_STDC, AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99 have been marked as obsolete. Applications should use AC_PROG_CC. -- AC_PROG_LEX no longer sets LEXLIB to be nonempty merely to define - the yywrap function. Packages should define yywrap themselves, or - use %noyywrap. +- AC_PROG_LEX no longer looks for a library providing the function + ‘yywrap’. LEXLIB will only be set to ‘-lfl’ or ‘-ll’ if a + scanner that defines both ‘main’ and ‘yywrap’ itself still needs + something else from that library. + + Packages should define yywrap themselves, or use %noyywrap. - AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS now enables more extensions on HP-UX, macOS, and MINIX, as well as on systems conforming to recent |