Re: HEAD build troubles, buildfarm misconfigurations

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2007 12:01, Tom Lane wrote:
>   
>> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 05 September 2007 00:06, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>       
>>>> BTW, on re-reading that, it seems a tad surprising to get an error right
>>>> there --- if postgres_fe.h or anything it includes were broken, then the
>>>> build should have failed earlier.  Is the failure reproducible in
>>>> repeated tries?
>>>>         
>>> Yes.  Just for giggles I played with the configure flags as well, but it
>>> always errors in that spot.
>>>       
>> Hmph.  I checked the CVS logs and there haven't been any recent changes
>> that seem like they could be related.
>>
>> It might be worth getting gcc -E output and looking to see what that
>> part of netdb.h looks like after macro expansion.
>>
>>     
>
> Sorry, my C-fu is lacking. My makefile claims it uses gcc -E, but I'm not sure 
> how to get a look at results after macro expansion 
>
> However... I looked again at the output of the make command on some ubuntu 
> buildfarm members, and the results were different enough that I got suspicous 
> of the flex/bison derived files in the snapshot, so I decided to build from 
> cvs and that works fine.  FWIW I am using flex 2.5.31 and bison 2.1, not sure 
> what is used to produce the snapshots... 
>   

scan.c in snapshot says:

#define YY_FLEX_MAJOR_VERSION 2
#define YY_FLEX_MINOR_VERSION 5


gram.c in snapshot says:

/* A Bison parser, made by GNU Bison 1.875.  */

cheers

andrew