Re: rc tarball built with older flex version?

On Monday 22 June 2009 00:17:06 Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.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?

Well, I rarely test the actual release source tarball, so it might have been 
like that forever.