Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: The compiler bombs at pgc.l and fails to finish compiling

You must upgrade to using flex 2.5.4+ .. the lex that comes with most
operating systems (commercial) tends to be unable to handle the complexity
of our .l files ...

On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Unprivileged user wrote:

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> POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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> Your name : Jonathan
> Your email address : jonz(at)netrail(dot)net
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> Category : install: compile
> Severity : critical
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> Summary: The compiler bombs at pgc.l and fails to finish compiling
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> System Configuration
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> Operating System : Solaris 7
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> PostgreSQL version : 6.4.2
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> Compiler used : gcc 2.8.1
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> Hardware:
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> ASUS P2L97-DS, Dual P-II 333 Mhz, 512MB RAM, 9 Gig Disk
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> Versions of other tools:
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> gmake 3.77, lex
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> Problem Description:
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> When the compiler reached pgc.l, I receive this error:
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> lex pgc.l
> "pgc.l":line 53: Error: missing translation value
> make[3]: *** [pgc.c] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/pgsql/src/interfaces'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
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> if I try and do a make install i get postgres, but none of the tools or anything else. It doesn't set up the database
> (if it is supposed to) either.
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> Test Case:
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> I did a ./configure --with-perl --with-CC=gcc --with-pgport=5432 --enable-hba --disable-locale and a 'gmake'
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Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org