diff --git a/base/flex/flex-2.5.35-gcc44-1.patch b/base/flex/flex-2.5.35-gcc44-1.patch
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+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../flex/flex-2.5.35-gcc44-1.patch
+# Copyright (C) 2010 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
+# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
+# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
+# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+# version.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+Submitted by: Matt Burgess (matthew at linuxfromscratch dot org)
+Date: 2009-05-03
+Initial Package Version: 2.5.35
+Origin: Matt Burgess
+Upstream Status: Submitted (attached to sourceforge bug 2178663)
+Description: Fixes an error caused by header cleanups in GCC 4.4.0 that is
+             evident from the test suite and would affect any C++ lexers
+             generated by Flex.  Without this patch, Flex will generate lexers
+             containing references to the 'EOF' symbol without including the
+             necessary C++ header file, leading to:
+
+             error: 'EOF' was not declared in this scope 
+
+diff -Naur flex-2.5.35.orig/skel.c flex-2.5.35/skel.c
+--- flex-2.5.35.orig/skel.c	2008-02-26 21:34:19.000000000 +0000
++++ flex-2.5.35/skel.c	2009-05-03 15:18:14.000000000 +0000
+@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@
+   "/* begin standard C++ headers. */",
+   "#include <iostream> ",
+   "#include <errno.h>",
++  "#include <cstdio>",
+   "#include <cstdlib>",
+   "#include <cstring>",
+   "/* end standard C++ headers. */",