Re: Upgrading our minimum required flex version for 8.5

On Thursday 02 July 2009 19:46:04 Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> > Then I take it back -- the new flex versions would have little or no
> > impact on me. Worst case, I might need to download a snapshot to
> > apply my patch for testing on the "big" machines. If I understood
> > what make options I could use on my machine to create derived files
> > for other machines, even that would go away.
>
> Peter or Marc could clue you in a bit better, but I think it's as simple
> as saying "make dist" at the top level of a modified source tree. This
> gets you a source tarball the same way the release tarballs are made.

make distprep is what prepares those files. make dist depends on make
distprep and then builds a tarball out of everything.