Re: [HACKERS] flex

Added to TODO list.

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> Maybe this has been discussed before my time, but why exactly is it that
> >> we don't distribute lex'ed files, as with yacc'ed files?
> 
> > Not sure.  Are they more platform-dependent or lexer-dependent?  Doesn't
> > the lexer call a lexer-specific library?  Not sure.
> 
> flex has a lexer-specific library (libfl.a), but as far as I can tell
> our scanners don't call it.  In fact our build process has no provision
> for adding -lfl to the link, which I used to think was an oversight, but
> now it's starting to seem like a good idea.  We could ship scan.c et al
> in the same way we handle the yacc/bison output files, and it should
> work everywhere.
> 
> If we were going to do this, I'd vote for making sure that *all* the
> yacc files are pregenerated (currently, we only take care of the larger
> ones), and then most people wouldn't need either flex or bison to build.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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