The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/install-requirements.html Description:
On the page https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/install-requirements.html the line "GNU Flex and Bison are needed to build from a Git checkout..." should be changed to "Flex and Bison are needed to build from a Git checkout..." The reason is because Flex is not a GNU package; it is BSD-licensed and copyrighted by the University of California. Bison does not need to be explicitly identified as GNU Bison, because there is only one Bison and it is widely known as the GNU implementation of yacc. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml index a922819..141494c 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ su - postgres <primary>yacc</primary> </indexterm> - GNU <application>Flex</application> and <application>Bison</application> + <application>Flex</application> and <application>Bison</application> are needed to build from a Git checkout, or if you changed the actual scanner and parser definition files. If you need them, be sure to get <application>Flex</application> 2.5.31 or later and
