Re: [vile] vile-9.7t.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Brendan O'Dea wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Paul van Tilburg<address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm having troubles with this release.
> > If I start 'vile foo.txt' I get a screen that shows the
> > HighLightFilter macro code, but no error.  If I then
> > do _0, to actually go to the foo.txt buffer, vile crashes
> > (aborts).
>
> Not sure about the crash, but the other problem appears to be an issue
> with dynamic loading of filters, possibly due to my switching from
> flex-old to flex.  I will look further.
>
>  Error: can't load shared object vile-vile-filt.so
> (/usr/lib/vile/vile-vile-filt.so: undefined symbol: vile_wrap)

That would be the lex-related symbol yywrap (transmuted to vile_wrap).
It's likely that "new" flex is treating the -P option differently from
flex 2.5.4a (this can't be fixed by adding -lfl to library list).

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