Re: Upgrading our minimum required flex version for 8.5

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrading our minimum required flex version for 8.5
Date: 2009-07-02 16:46:04
Message-ID: 919.1246553164@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> Then I take it back -- the new flex versions would have little or no
> impact on me. Worst case, I might need to download a snapshot to
> apply my patch for testing on the "big" machines. If I understood
> what make options I could use on my machine to create derived files
> for other machines, even that would go away.

Peter or Marc could clue you in a bit better, but I think it's as simple
as saying "make dist" at the top level of a modified source tree. This
gets you a source tarball the same way the release tarballs are made.

regards, tom lane

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