[kde-freebsd] devel/kdesdk3 fail if textproc/flex is installed

Andy Fawcett andy at athame.co.uk
Wed Aug 20 17:49:42 CEST 2008


On Thursday 14 August 2008 05:38:16 Dima Panov wrote:
> Hello!
>
>
> devel/kdesdk3 fail if textproc/flex is installed, because
> textproc/flex conflicting with system flex, and have ABI
> incompatibility.
>
> To flex maintiner: ${PREFIX}/include is not good place for confliting
> header file, FlexLexer.h. Move it into subdirectory instead and teach
> ports, which really need this version, to use new version..

Dima, has this been PR'd against textproc/flex?

We (kde@) know about the kdesdk3 case (ports/115912), but I'd prefer to 
see flex port fixed as you suggested. It's just plain wrong.

Andy

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