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| author | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2017-03-07 22:37:58 -0500 |
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| committer | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2017-03-08 00:07:07 -0500 |
| commit | aac67f210df820e84cdd380dc061e417ebd2154e (patch) | |
| tree | a80e04b0532a9a27fb84b404e10fc69097e29a1d | |
| parent | 093c6f8bc734246491530e58b363fbdd6782f439 (diff) | |
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gnu: Add flex-2.6.1.
* gnu/packages/flex.scm (flex-2.6.1): New variable.
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/flex.scm | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/flex.scm b/gnu/packages/flex.scm index 2d31660f3e..1470b967da 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/flex.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/flex.scm @@ -85,3 +85,20 @@ regular expressions for each rule. Whenever it finds a match, it executes the corresponding C code.") (license (non-copyleft "file://COPYING" "See COPYING in the distribution.")))) + +;;; Many packages fail to build with flex > 2.6.1, due to this bug in flex: +;;; <https://github.com/westes/flex/issues/162> +;;; We must not use a flex before 2.6.1, due to CVE-2016-6354. +;;; TODO Try using flex > 2.6.3. +(define-public flex-2.6.1 + (package + (inherit flex) + (version "2.6.1") + (source (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "https://github.com/westes/flex" + "/releases/download/v" version "/" + "flex-" version ".tar.xz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "0gqhk4vkwy4gl9xbpgkljph8c0a5kpijz6wd0p5r9q202qn42yic")))))) |