Re: rc tarball built with older flex version?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: rc tarball built with older flex version?
Date: 2009-06-18 18:01:20
Message-ID: 12704.1245348080@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> I noticed that the rc1 tarball includes scanner files that are built with an
> older flex version that generates warnings with our default compilation flags.
> Since I have been running with -Werror by default for a great while now, this
> caught my attention while testing the tarball. Are we tracking this or are we
> just using whatever was installed on the host that created the snapshot?

It's whatever is installed on svr1, but we don't change that often,
and I'm particularly not inclined to change it post-RC. We don't
recommend that people use -Werror to build, so I think we should just
write this off as "not a bug".

regards, tom lane

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