Re: Upgrading our minimum required flex version for 8.5

From: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrading our minimum required flex version for 8.5
Date: 2009-07-23 01:57:54
Message-ID: alpine.GSO.2.01.0907222153330.16713@westnet.com
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I got bit by this tonight as part of testing a patch on CentOS 5, which
like RHEL 5 still ships flex 2.5.4. I just wrote a little guide on how to
grab a source RPM from a Fedora version and install it to work around that
problem:
http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2009/07/upgrading-flex-from-source-rpm-to.html

Kind of annoying, but as special software you have to install on a server
just to build something from CVS goes it's only a minor inconvenience.

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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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