I'm seeing this failure on a build machine with an old (and therefore unusable) version of flex:
gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -I../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include -c -o basebackup.o basebackup.c /usr/bin/bison -d -o repl_gram.c repl_gram.y *** ERROR: `flex' is missing on your system. It is needed to create the file `repl_scanner.c'. You can either get flex from a GNU mirror site or download an official distribution of PostgreSQL, which contains pre-packaged flex output. *** make[3]: *** [repl_scanner.c] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/buildfarm/pginstaller/server/source/postgres.linux/src/backend/replication' make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/buildfarm/pginstaller/server/source/postgres.linux/src/backend' make[2]: *** [replication-recursive] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/buildfarm/pginstaller/server/source/postgres.linux/src' make[1]: *** [all-backend-recurse] Error 2 make: *** [all-src-recurse] Error 2 Looks like we're missing the pre-build output from the tarball. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
