patch applied (haskell-prime-report): some notes on how to build it.

[isaac jones]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:42 +0000, David House wrote:
> On 08/01/07, Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Mon Jan  8 03:11:48 PST 2007  Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com>
> >   * some notes on how to build it.
> >
> >     M ./README -6 +26
> 
> Using the flex version 2.5.31, straight out of apt, I get the following error:
> 
> flex -t -8 verbatim.lex > verbatim.c || ( rm -f verbatim.c && exit 1 )
> verbatim.lex:75: warning, rule cannot be matched
> cc -c verbatim.c -o verbatim.o
> <stdout>:561:25: error: macro "yywrap" passed 1 arguments, but takes just 0
> make: *** [verbatim] Error 1
> 
> Using the flex-old package, which is version 2.5.4a, it works. I guess
> this means our flex files are legacy. Could they be updated to work
> with the latest flex?

This has been fixed :)

It turns out that not all mods are posted to the mailing list, due to
subscription requirements.

peace,

  isaac