| From: | salah jubeh <s_jubeh(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: bison, flex and ./configure |
| Date: | 2014-01-28 14:28:09 |
| Message-ID: | 1390919289.98578.YahooMailNeo@web164806.mail.gq1.yahoo.com |
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>Yes. Bison and flex are not required when building from a source
>tarball, because the tarball includes the generated files. If you're
>building from a git checkout, however, then you need bison and flex. You
>will get an error at make, and IIRC a warning at ./configure
Thanks for the quick reply. For curiosity reasons why the differentiation between tar and git.
Regards
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:18 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
On 01/28/2014 04:14 PM, salah jubeh wrote:
> Today, I have noticed that ./configure does not return an error when bison and flex are missing. Is this intended ?
Yes. Bison and flex are not required when building from a source
tarball, because the tarball includes the generated files. If you're
building from a git checkout, however, then you need bison and flex. You
will get an error at make, and IIRC a warning at ./configure.
- Heikki
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