Re: bug#11185: flex %option "never-interactive" breaks few tests on Solaris

[Stefano Lattarini]

tags 11185 + patch
close 11185
thanks

On 04/05/2012 09:22 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> On 2012-04-05 15:40, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> Severity: minor
>> thanks
>>
>> Hello automakers, Peter.
>>
>> The commit v1.11-2058-g6f4b08d of 06-03-2012, "tests: explicitly state
>> that our lexers do not require unistd.h", has been causing at least
>> the tests 'lex-clean-cxx.test' and 'lex-depend-cxx.test' to break on
>> Solaris, where lex is not flex, and does not understand the directive
>> "%option never-interactive".
>>
>> Any opinion on how to better fix this?  Is defining a dummy 'isatty'
>> function in our C++ sources enough to avoid the failures on MSYS?
> 
> Yes, the test still passes with MSVC and the below patch.
>
> [SNIP]
>
Thanks.  I've pushed the attached patch to master, which should fix the
problem.  I'm thus closing this bug report.

Regards,
  Stefano

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