Re: [vile] vile-9.7t.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:35:00PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Paul van Tilburg<address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > I'm having troubles with this release.
> > > > If I start 'vile foo.txt' I get a screen that shows the
> > > > HighLightFilter macro code, but no error.  If I then
> > > > do _0, to actually go to the foo.txt buffer, vile crashes
> > > > (aborts).
> > >
> > > Not sure about the crash, but the other problem appears to be an issue
> > > with dynamic loading of filters, possibly due to my switching from
> > > flex-old to flex.  I will look further.
> > >
> > > Error: can't load shared object vile-vile-filt.so
> > > (/usr/lib/vile/vile-vile-filt.so: undefined symbol: vile_wrap)
> >
> > That would be the lex-related symbol yywrap (transmuted to vile_wrap).
> > It's likely that "new" flex is treating the -P option differently from
> > flex 2.5.4a (this can't be fixed by adding -lfl to library list).
>
> Any ideas about how to resolve it (or a work-around)?  I don't want to
> rush anyone, but I have to downgrade to vile 9.7s because 9.7t (the
> current version in Debian Unstable) is unusable for me (always gives an
> error and then crashes).   I am happy to provide mode information.

Make it build with "old" flex - it works.

For the long term, it might be useful to have a "reflex" package,
since "new" flex offers no advantages over "old" flex, is not
maintained, etc., while "reflex" does fix some of the issues I
had with "old" flex (and "new" flex doesn't do any of those ;-)

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