Re: compile from git repository

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 16:30, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> On 08/30/2011 07:11 AM, 权宗亮 wrote:
>>> I try to compile from git repository and get some errors.
>>>
>>> Windows 7 x86
>>> VC Express 2008
>>> perl v5.8.9
>>> flex 2.5.4a-1
>>> bison 2.4.1
>
>> Your version of flex is too old.
>
> Hmm ... had the OP been using configure, he'd have been told that by the
> build scripts.  Should the MSVC build scripts be improved to check the
> versions of bison and flex?

We do it for bison already. It probably shouldn't be too hard to do
the same for flex.

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