Re: Can't install octave-forge packages in a 32-bit OS X build, but can in a 64-bit one

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, c. wrote:

> On 5 Nov 2011, at 21:54, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 
>> That might be worth a shot, though on 10.6 fink's flex-devel and the
>> system's /usr/bin/flex are at the same version, so that leaves the
>> ancient 2.5.4a from our "flex" package.
> 
> No, they aren't, although the version number is the same, the version shiped 
> with the system has been patched by apple.
> c.

Now that you mention that, I also remember we encountered that before. Looking 
through the mail-list, I think the offending patch was the one below.

        
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/flex/flex-24.1/patches/scanEOF.diff

Ben