Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This patch adds an autoconf test to check for the new incompatible version of > > flex. > > It seems unlikely that we should cause configure to reject all future > versions of flex... .31 may be broken but I think we should assume that > they'l fix it.
I inquired about this problem elsewhere, it's not a bug, it's an API change. Until postgres "ports" to the new API it won't work with newer versions of Flex. >From the Debian maintainer of the flex package (http://bugs.debian.org/199776): > The signature of all functions has changed. flex has new > command line options, and option parsing has changed (now also > supports POSIX conventions optionally). Handles POSIXLY_CORRECT > environment variable. Various i18n translations are included in the > distribution. flex now works with recent bison versions > > This is not a single short lived change. > > I understand that this requires all packages using lex to > massage their lexers to conform to the new behaviour of flex; but the > gains in reduced complexity of the scanner and reentrancy and > standards compliance are well worth it. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
