diff --git a/devel/alex/Makefile b/devel/alex/Makefile
index 969ae29e435f..54be86c360ed 100644
--- a/devel/alex/Makefile
+++ b/devel/alex/Makefile
@@ -1,34 +1,12 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.15 2023/10/09 04:54:04 pho Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.16 2023/10/26 13:07:44 pho Exp $
 
-DISTNAME=	alex-3.2.7.1
+DISTNAME=	alex-3.4.0.0
 PKGNAME=	${DISTNAME}
-PKGREVISION=	4
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 
 MAINTAINER=	esg@sdf.lonestar.org
 COMMENT=	Tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell
 LICENSE=	modified-bsd
 
-USE_TOOLS+=	autoconf gmake
-TOOL_DEPENDS+=	docbook-xsl-[0-9]*:../../textproc/docbook-xsl
-TOOL_DEPENDS+=	libxml2-[0-9]*:../../textproc/libxml2
-TOOL_DEPENDS+=	libxslt-[0-9]*:../../textproc/libxslt
-
-CONFIGURE_ENV+=	fp_cv_dir_docbook_xsl=${PREFIX}/share/xsl/docbook
-CONFIGURE_ENV+=	ac_cv_path_DbLatexCmd= # empty
-pre-configure:
-	${RUN}cd ${WRKSRC}/doc && autoconf && ${PKGSRC_SETENV} ${CONFIGURE_ENV} \
-		${CONFIG_SHELL} ${CONFIG_SHELL_FLAGS} ./configure
-
-post-build:
-	${RUN}cd ${WRKSRC}/doc && ${GMAKE}
-
-INSTALLATION_DIRS+=	${PKGMANDIR}/man1 ${PREFIX}/share/doc/${PKGBASE}
-post-install:
-	${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/doc/alex.1 ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/${PKGMANDIR}/man1
-	for f in ${WRKSRC}/doc/alex/*; do \
-		${INSTALL_DATA} "$$f" ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/share/doc/${PKGBASE}/; \
-	done
-
 .include "../../mk/haskell.mk"
 .include "../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk"
diff --git a/devel/alex/PLIST b/devel/alex/PLIST
index 836fa404f80c..bb3b7325e570 100644
--- a/devel/alex/PLIST
+++ b/devel/alex/PLIST
@@ -1,24 +1,5 @@
-@comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.4 2022/02/11 09:47:44 pho Exp $
+@comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.5 2023/10/26 13:07:44 pho Exp $
 bin/alex
-man/man1/alex.1
-share/doc/alex/about.html
-share/doc/alex/alex-files.html
-share/doc/alex/api.html
-share/doc/alex/basic-api.html
-share/doc/alex/bug-reports.html
-share/doc/alex/charsets.html
-share/doc/alex/fptools.css
-share/doc/alex/index.html
-share/doc/alex/introduction.html
-share/doc/alex/invoking.html
-share/doc/alex/license.html
-share/doc/alex/regexps.html
-share/doc/alex/relnotes-20.html
-share/doc/alex/relnotes-210.html
-share/doc/alex/relnotes-22.html
-share/doc/alex/syntax.html
-share/doc/alex/types.html
-share/doc/alex/wrappers.html
 share/doc/${HS_PLATFORM}/${PKGNAME}/LICENSE
 share/${HS_PLATFORM}/${PKGNAME}/AlexTemplate.hs
 share/${HS_PLATFORM}/${PKGNAME}/AlexWrappers.hs
diff --git a/devel/alex/distinfo b/devel/alex/distinfo
index 1c2769cbbdc0..ea5ceb34f796 100644
--- a/devel/alex/distinfo
+++ b/devel/alex/distinfo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.8 2022/02/11 09:47:44 pho Exp $
+$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.9 2023/10/26 13:07:44 pho Exp $
 
-BLAKE2s (alex-3.2.7.1.tar.gz) = cd6f948f68df789358b38e72d11c315923c29c1b183f53fd01cf88f4ac253401
-SHA512 (alex-3.2.7.1.tar.gz) = f8ff12de874b905449fdda0d704f9e4ac30fa3e60e965f82d7bb2d6e3974cf926f85134d32878c48faf0ec4a002ea7240cf6696e1cbcad25a0eebb9d1850cc07
-Size (alex-3.2.7.1.tar.gz) = 108229 bytes
+BLAKE2s (alex-3.4.0.0.tar.gz) = 439e713d03056744d625c3d7c31681e120ae17243dfbb83ebddbf8c1ca767d93
+SHA512 (alex-3.4.0.0.tar.gz) = 4e35238c4e9a383d148f8c8535f7cabe2b6735fb242e5819aafb4695299134342baa95817cbba49b05f6ccc23ee978fa1b7c30a2aa162b53482f5c9feab55fb6
+Size (alex-3.4.0.0.tar.gz) = 86841 bytes