* A much newer version of flex. The old (GNU) one was from 1997.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=727

pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix

@@ -209,6 +209,12 @@
     yacc = bison;
   };
 
+  flexnew = (import ../development/tools/parsing/flex/flex-new.nix) {
+    fetchurl = fetchurl;
+    stdenv = stdenv;
+    yacc = bison;
+  };
+
   gcc = (import ../development/compilers/gcc) {
     fetchurl = fetchurl;
     stdenv = stdenv;

pkgs/system/populate-cache.nix

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ let {
     [ pkgs.zip
       pkgs.unzip
       pkgs.valgrind
+      pkgs.flexnew
       pkgs.par2cmdline
       pkgs.cksfv
       pkgs.graphviz