[OE-core] [PATCH v4 02/12] acpica: work around flex 2.6.2 code generation issue

[Patrick Ohly]

On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 15:12 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> Without this patch, linking fails with a missing implementation of
> yy_scan_string. This looks like a regression in flex, because 2.6.0 generated
> different code that called PrParser_scan_string
> resp. DtParser_scan_string.
> 
> Working around that in acpica until this is better understood or fixed
> in flex is the easiest solution for now.

It turned out that flex 2.6.3 has a fix for the problem. But the github
issue tracker for flex has several people who reported issues with 2.6.3
(affecting gdb, binutils, grub) that we probably should wait a bit
before trying to update to that release.

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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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