failed make with gcc 3.2.2 and flex 2.5.31

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

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> 
> Bryan,
> 
> You can't get there from here.  I went around that block about 119 times
> (stubborn doesn't even begin to describe me) with various versions of flex
> and bison, with and without the patches, and got variations on that same 
> error every time.  I also found out the hard way that the warning in 
> INSTALL.txt is still accurate when it says flex + gcc 3.x is bad medicine.

It works on stock redhat 9, as well as 8 (gcc 3.2.2 + flex
2.5.4a). You might want to check out the src.rpm for flex from RH to
see what patches they applied before installing it.

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