Add support for building the latest developer snapshot (which especially provides support for fully reentrant parsers we need in OSSP L2 soon) instead of the old 1997'er release.

flex/flex.spec

@@ -22,6 +22,16 @@
 ##  SUCH DAMAGE. 
 ##  
 
+%define       V_branch      release
+
+%define       V_release     2.5.4a
+%define       V_release_maj 2.5.4
+%define       V_release_min a
+
+%define       V_devel       20011101
+%define       V_devel_maj   2.5.6
+%define       V_devel_min   2001-11-01
+
 #   package information
 Name:         flex
 Summary:      Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator
@@ -31,11 +41,19 @@ Packager:     The OpenPKG Project
 Distribution: OpenPKG [EXP]
 Group:        Language
 License:      BSD
-Version:      2.5.4a
+%if "%{V_branch}" == "release"
+Version:      %{V_release}
+%else
+Version:      %{V_devel}
+%endif
 Release:      %{l_branch}.0
 
 #   list of sources
-Source0:      ftp://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/flex/flex-%{version}.tar.gz
+%if "%{V_branch}" == "release"
+Source0:      ftp://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/flex/flex-%{V_release}.tar.gz
+%else
+Source0:      http://astro.temple.edu/~john43/flex/flex-%{V_devel_maj}-developer-%{V_devel_min}.tar.gz
+%endif
 
 #   build information
 Prefix:       %{l_prefix}
@@ -56,7 +74,11 @@ AutoReqProv:  no
     Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code.
 
 %prep
-    %setup -q -n flex-2.5.4
+%if "%{V_branch}" == "release"
+    %setup -q -n flex-%{V_release_maj}
+%else
+    %setup -q -n flex-%{V_devel_maj}
+%endif
 
 %build
     PATH="%{l_prefix}/bin:%{l_prefix}/sbin:$PATH"
@@ -72,8 +94,8 @@ AutoReqProv:  no
     %{l_make} %{l_mflags} install
     strip $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/bin/* >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
     rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/bin/flex++
-    ln $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/bin/flex $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/bin/flex++
-    ln $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/man/man1/flex.1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/man/man1/flex++.1
+    ln $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/bin/flex \
+       $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/bin/flex++
     %{l_rpmtool} files -v -ofiles -r$RPM_BUILD_ROOT %{l_files_std}
 
 %files -f files