Some may recall verison 2.5.34 was broken in a way that broke some builds. Jan, do you recall exactly what wouldn't build? If so, I can try to build it with the new version. Request signoff from one other for i686. Full log since 2.5.33 is below. - P *** * version 2.5.35 released 2008-02-26 ** fixed bug that prevented flex from accepting certain comments in the scanner file (resolves bugs #1849809 and #1849805) ** fix bug that prevented headers for all functions from being generated (resolves bug #1628314) ** change yy_size_t to be size_t (resolves bug #1849812) ** new de, nl, pl, pt_br, vi translations from the translation project * version 2.5.34 released 2007-12-12 ** introduce yylex_init_extra; see the manual for details ** introduce %option extra-type="your_type *" (resolves bug #1744505) ** The flex program now parses multiple short concatenated options (resolves bug #1619820). Thanks to Petr Machata of Red Hat on this issue. ** better checking after yyalloc/yyrealloc (resolves bug #1595967) ** flex now provides for a libfl_pic.a compiled with position independent code. Particularly useful when including a flex scanner in a shared library and with more recent versions of gcc. Thanks to the Debia n project for the idea. ** SourceForge feature request #1658379: Expose YY_BUF_SIZE in the header file. ** flex better escapes filenames with special characters in them (resolves bug #1623600) ** a memory leak was plugged(resolves bug #1601111) ** pattern language expanded; see the manual for details on the below highlights *** pattern options added to specify patterns as case-insensitive or case-sensitive *** pattern options to specify whether the "." character should match the newline character *** pattern options added to allow ignoring of whitespace in patterns *** POSIX character classes may be negated in patterns *** patterns may now use set difference, union operators ** the manual now contains an appendix listing various common patterns which may be useful when writing scanners ** some memory leaks were removed from the C++ scanner (but the C++ scanner is still experimental and may change radically without notice) ** c++ scanners can now use yywrap ** added new unit test for c++ and yywrap ** portability fixes to some unit tests ** flex man page and flex manual in pdf now distributed in the flex distribution ** new ca, vi, ga, nl translations from the translation project ** flex no longer comes with an rpm spec file ** flex development now happens with automake 1.9.6