Re: [HACKERS] flex

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>>>> flex has a lexer-specific library (libfl.a), but as far as I can tell
>>>> our scanners don't call it. In fact our build process has no provision
>>>> for adding -lfl to the link, which I used to think was an oversight, but
>>>> now it's starting to seem like a good idea. We could ship scan.c et al
>>>> in the same way we handle the yacc/bison output files, and it should
>>>> work everywhere.

> This puzzles me a bit still, but it seems to work.

I suppose that libfl.a is only needed to support some flex features that
we don't use --- but I haven't bothered to dig in and find out what.

Thanks for taking care of that task; it'd been hanging around on the
"good ideas to get to someday" list for quite a while.

regards, tom lane