On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Victor Wagner <vitus(at)wagner(dot)pp(dot)ru> wrote:
> Recently (about a month ago) flex 2.6.0 have been released.
>
> But when we tried to compile PostgreSQL 9.5 beta 1 from git with it on
> Windows, we've encountered that src/tools/msvc/pgflex.pl explicitely
> checks that minor version of flex is equal to 5.
>
> unless ($verparts[0] == 2 && $verparts[1] == 5 && $verparts[2]
> >=31) { print "WARNING! Flex install not found, or unsupported Flex
> version.\n"; print "echo Attempting to build without.\n";
> exit 0;
> }
>
> Is this check intentional, or it just seats here from the time when
> version 2.6.0 didn't exist?
>
> Postgres seems to compile fine with flex 2.6.0.
It seems that 32f15d05 missed to update its equivalent in
src/tools/msvc. Per se the patch attached as you already found out.
--
Michael