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make it so that the <PRED> field in the LMR lexicon is optional, and
inherits the <STEM> value if empty.

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convert to ant instead of make for building Grok.

http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html

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see if there is a new version of gnu.regexp or any new regular
expression packages available

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get rid of Metamata stuff and find an open source replacement