Re: Winflex

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Using
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/misc/winflex/
>
> on a 64-bit windows, but in 32-bit mode (this certainly used to work),
> trying to build HEAD.
>
> first of all, it returns error code 128 when running "flex -V", which
> means our script claims it doesn't work. Commenting out that check, it
> crashes along the line of:
> Running flex on src\backend\utils\misc\guc-file.l
>      14 [main] flex 2372 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception:
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>
> Sometimes it doesn't crash, but do this instead:
> Running flex on src\backend\parser\scan.l
> c:\gnuwin32\bin\m4.exe:stdin:16769: ERROR: end of file in string
> Project : error PRJ0002 : Error result 128 returned from 'C:\WINDOWS\SysWow64\cm
> d.exe'.
>
>
> If I run it a couple of times, it eventually completes. But then bombs
> out because the generated files aren't complete.
>
> Anybody else seen this? Am I forgetting something typical?
>   

Well, I have now reproduced the behaviour, so it's not just you. But I 
have not been able to set up a working Cygwin build environment, so I 
can't try to rebuild it right now. It sure looks like it's the exec 
that's failing.

cheers

andrew