Re: [Pgbuildfarm-members] Snow Leopard bison/flex build problem

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Creager <robert(at)logicalchaos(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Pgbuildfarm-members] Snow Leopard bison/flex build problem
Date: 2009-09-08 04:48:18
Message-ID: 18232.1252385298@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> Yeah, I've confirmed this. It appears that Apple has absorbed this
> as-yet-unreleased upstream patch into their "2.5.35" version:
> http://flex.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/flex/flex/flex.skl?r1=2.212&r2=2.213
> ...
> However, I think we can work around it. AFAICS, the only reason ecpg
> has an extern for yyleng is because preproc.y's make_name() uses it,
> and there doesn't seem to be any compelling reason why that function
> shouldn't just do "mm_strdup(yytext)" instead.

I've committed patches for this --- it should be safe to go back to
using OS X's native flex on your buildfarm machine.

regards, tom lane

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