Re: Subtle bug in autoconf flex version test

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Subtle bug in autoconf flex version test
Date: 2016-05-02 14:04:48
Message-ID: 19280.1462197888@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>> On 02 May 2016, at 15:38, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Hm, is that a popular flex version? I wonder whether we will get
>> complaints if we start warning about it.

> Sorry, I missed half the sentence there. What I meant was that I can trigger
> the warning synthetically by changing the version number just to test the
> warning; before any version is happily accepted.

Ah, I see. I was wondering where you found a flex reporting such a
number; I was guessing it was an unreleased devel version ...

Will commit the fix in a bit.

regards, tom lane

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