| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Winflex docs and distro |
| Date: | 2021-05-17 08:17:56 |
| Message-ID: | CABUevEwXLJpVpab62f7AFXNWQ5=U0kvErCLq4VEsikidLyzSQg@mail.gmail.com |
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Since PostgreSQL 9.3, in commit a266f7dd93b, we've added the text:
+ The obsolete "winflex" binaries distributed on the PostgreSQL FTP site
+ and referenced in older documentation will fail with "flex: fatal
+ internal error, exec failed" on 64-bit Windows hosts. Use flex from
+ msys instead.
At this point. I suggest we simply stop distributing winflex on our
download site, and just remove this note from the documentation. (This
is just a note, the general documentation still says get flex from
msys, separately).
Surely a binary that doesn't work on a 64-bit system is not of help to
anybody these days.. And "older documentation" now refers to 9.2 which
was EOL in 2017.
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Magnus Hagander
Me: https://www.hagander.net/
Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/
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