| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt(at)greenplum(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Upgrading our minimum required flex version for 8.5 |
| Date: | 2009-07-14 17:45:21 |
| Message-ID: | 26275.1247593521@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> What I have done is built a version of flex 2.5.35 with Cygwin, and
> bundled the .exe with the Cygwin DLL (the only other thing it should
> need, for our purposes) in a zip file. It can currently be fetched from
> <http://developer.postgresql.org/~adunstan/windows-flex-2.5.35.zip>.
> That way people won't have to do a full Cygwin or MSys install to use it.
Sounds good. The other idea that was suggested (putting scan.c into
CVS) seems problematic on reflection. I don't believe that CVS will
guarantee that scan.c has a same-or-newer timestamp as scan.l if both
are pulled from CVS; so you might find make trying to rebuild scan.c
anyway.
regards, tom lane
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