Re: Why so many out-of-disk-space failures on buildfarm machines?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>     
>>> BTW, while I'm thinking of it --- it'd be real nice if the buildfarm
>>> "configuration" printout included the flex and bison version numbers.
>>>       
>
>   
>> Interestingly, none of our tools actually outputs the bison/flex 
>> versions - perhaps configure should be doing that.
>>     
>
> Hmm, that's a good solution, especially since it'll start working right
> away instead of waiting for buildfarm owners to update their scripts ;-)
>
> I think I can get it to do
>     checking for flex... /usr/local/bin/flex 2.5.4
> ... does that seem reasonable?
>   

looks good to me.
>   
>> We do log the gcc 
>> version (look in the config.log if you want to make sure).
>>     
>
> Oh, that seems to be something in the base autoconf macros rather than
> anything we put in.  I don't especially like hiding it in config.log
> --- who reads that?
>
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>   

Well, we should be able to add something along the lines of what you did 
above, though, can't we? We already have a section in configure.in 
specifically for gcc (see around line 272).

cheers

andrew