Re: rc tarball built with older flex version?

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

> 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".

I'm a bit confused here though ... I haven't changed flex on that VPS
recently ... in fact, its dated Sep 15, 2007 ... so the builds have been
using the same flex for a long while now ...

Peter, is this a recently change you've noticed, or something that has
been like that for while now?

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