Re: HEAD build troubles, buildfarm misconfigurations

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2007 12:01, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 05 September 2007 00:06, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>>> BTW, on re-reading that, it seems a tad surprising to get an error right
>>>> there --- if postgres_fe.h or anything it includes were broken, then the
>>>> build should have failed earlier. Is the failure reproducible in
>>>> repeated tries?
>>>>
>>> Yes. Just for giggles I played with the configure flags as well, but it
>>> always errors in that spot.
>>>
>> Hmph. I checked the CVS logs and there haven't been any recent changes
>> that seem like they could be related.
>>
>> It might be worth getting gcc -E output and looking to see what that
>> part of netdb.h looks like after macro expansion.
>>
>>
>
> Sorry, my C-fu is lacking. My makefile claims it uses gcc -E, but I'm not sure
> how to get a look at results after macro expansion
>
> However... I looked again at the output of the make command on some ubuntu
> buildfarm members, and the results were different enough that I got suspicous
> of the flex/bison derived files in the snapshot, so I decided to build from
> cvs and that works fine. FWIW I am using flex 2.5.31 and bison 2.1, not sure
> what is used to produce the snapshots...
>

scan.c in snapshot says:

#define YY_FLEX_MAJOR_VERSION 2
#define YY_FLEX_MINOR_VERSION 5

gram.c in snapshot says:

/* A Bison parser, made by GNU Bison 1.875. */

cheers

andrew