Re: Upgrading our minimum required flex version for 8.5

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:52, Dave Page<dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Greg Smith<gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I got bit by this tonight as part of testing a patch on CentOS 5, which like
>>> RHEL 5 still ships flex 2.5.4.  I just wrote a little guide on how to grab a
>>> source RPM from a Fedora version and install it to work around that problem:
>>> http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2009/07/upgrading-flex-from-source-rpm-to.html
>>>
>>> Kind of annoying, but as special software you have to install on a server
>>> just to build something from CVS goes it's only a minor inconvenience.
>>>       
>> *sigh*. So does OS X Tiger. And (unsurprisingly), CentOS 4, which is
>> what we use for all our Linux build servers.
>>
>> This is getting quite tiresome :-(
>>     
>
> Much as I dislike it, we may need to revisit the idea about putting
> the flex output files in CVS...
>
>   

Why? This only affects developers building from a CVS pull. You don't 
need any flex at all to build from a tarball. If developers can't 
install flex on a *nix box they need to get out of the business.

cheers

andrew