Re: win_flex.exe (and likely win_bison.exe) isn't concurrency safe

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: win_flex.exe (and likely win_bison.exe) isn't concurrency safe
Date: 2022-09-03 05:21:51
Message-ID: 20220903052151.ck5oytvhspfqkyrw@jrouhaud
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On Sat, Sep 03, 2022 at 10:33:43AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 4:13 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > For the meson build it is trivial to "address" this by setting FLEX_TMP_DIR to
> > a private directory (which we already need to deal with lex.backup), something
> > similar could be done for src/tools/msvc.
> >
> >
> > Unless we think it'd be better to just refuse to work with winflexbison?
> >
>
> Personally, I have never used this but I feel it would be good to keep
> it working especially if others are using it.

My windows environments rely on winflexbison so I'd prefer if we keep the
compatibility (or improve it). I personally never hit that problem, but I
don't work much on Windows either.

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