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@@ -41,9 +41,14 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Flex</title>
+ <para>Fix an issue that was discovered after release:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&flex-fixes-patch; &amp;&amp;
+touch src/scan.*</userinput></screen>
+
<para>The build procedure assumes the <application>help2man</application>
program is available to create a man page from the executable --help option.
- This is not present, so we use an environment variable to skip this process.
+ This is not present, so we use an environment variable to skip this process.
Now, prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">HELP2MAN=/tools/bin/true \
@@ -57,7 +62,7 @@
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
- <para>There is one known test failure.</para>
+ <para>One test, <emphasis>cxx_restart</emphasis>, is known to fail.</para>
<para>Install the package:</para>