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

[Alexander Hansen]

On 11/5/11 5:08 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 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
> 

In any case, I played around with different the available flex options
(fink's flex, flex-devel [which normally has to be explicitly used
because it's out of the PATH], or the system's flex) with no change in
the results.

Alex