Re: pkg/42509: lang/intercal wants to refer to yylineno which no longer exists

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42509; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/42509: lang/intercal wants to refer to yylineno which no 
longer exists
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:32:48 +0700

     Date:        Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:43:22 -0500
     From:        christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
     Message-ID:  <20091223194322.C4E365654F%rebar.astron.com@localhost>
 
   | Add %option yylineno to the lex file?
 
 Thanks for the hint, that seemed simple enough (though I never found in
 the lex (flex) documentation any hint just where in the input sequence all
 the %option stuff it talks about should get put...) that I thought I should
 take a look at that and make a patch.
 
 But it turns out to be the exact opposite of what is wanted, intercal
 is (mostly) assuming it is using flex, which doesn't manage yylineno,
 and is handling it all for itself (I guess it uses that name for compatibility
 with other lex parsers, for the rest of the code).
 
 The problem turns out to be that patches/patch-ad "undoes" this
 assumption (essentially removes the declaration of yylineno and assumes
 that lex will provide it) - simply deleting patches/patch-ad fixed the
 problem for me.
 
 I assume though that someone needs that patch (which systems that pkgsrc
 runs on don't use a flex based lex?) - and that some more elegant solution
 than simply deleting the patch will be needed.
 
 kre