Kang-Che Sung (宋岡哲)

Excuse me, but what was this issue about? Was it only about `[^\r]` incompatibility or was it something more? I think the fix should be easy—no need to bother with...

@westes Amended commit to use libtool 2.2. And fix some wording in comments.

In the `grammar.y` file of the MagicPoint code you attached, the global variable `yylineno` collides with Flex's internal `yylineno`. The `yy` prefixes are reserved for us (generated lexers and parsers),...

@mirabilos You should provide a minimal test case to demonstrate that it is Flex's bug. Otherwise, there is nothing I can help as the compile error makes sense and MagicPoint...

Did you meet any bug or regression while lowering Automake requirement to 1.11.2? If you see no regressions, feel free to make a pull request for lowering the requirement. Ideally...

@noloader Packing with lzip was not my decision. It's probably not relevant to you anyway. Please leave that alone. I think I will make a pull request to comment about...

@westes, I think you need to take a look at this issue. Because you raised the Automake version requirement in one of the latest commits in master (19cffb0ff001e24a278ab979ac7a49f788ab2eba). I would...

> I'm also concerned that if we require version x of a tool, that we perhaps build with version y of that tool and if x and y are too...

@GitMensch The lowest version requirements for Autoconf and Automake to build the current state of Flex code is 2.62 and 1.11.3, respectively. I have not yet found out the lowest...

Some updates here (2018-10-07). Regarding libtool version, I can successfully build flex with libtool as early as 1.4.3. However, a change in configure.ac is needed to replace the modern LT_INIT...