rc tarball built with older flex version?

Started by Peter Eisentrautover 16 years ago5 messages
#1Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net

I noticed that the rc1 tarball includes scanner files that are built with an
older flex version that generates warnings with our default compilation flags.
Since I have been running with -Werror by default for a great while now, this
caught my attention while testing the tarball. Are we tracking this or are we
just using whatever was installed on the host that created the snapshot?

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Peter Eisentraut (#1)
Re: rc tarball built with older flex version?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:

I noticed that the rc1 tarball includes scanner files that are built with an
older flex version that generates warnings with our default compilation flags.
Since I have been running with -Werror by default for a great while now, this
caught my attention while testing the tarball. Are we tracking this or are we
just using whatever was installed on the host that created the snapshot?

It's whatever is installed on svr1, but we don't change that often,
and I'm particularly not inclined to change it post-RC. We don't
recommend that people use -Werror to build, so I think we should just
write this off as "not a bug".

regards, tom lane

#3Marc G. Fournier
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: rc tarball built with older flex version?

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:

I noticed that the rc1 tarball includes scanner files that are built with an
older flex version that generates warnings with our default compilation flags.
Since I have been running with -Werror by default for a great while now, this
caught my attention while testing the tarball. Are we tracking this or are we
just using whatever was installed on the host that created the snapshot?

It's whatever is installed on svr1, but we don't change that often,
and I'm particularly not inclined to change it post-RC. We don't
recommend that people use -Werror to build, so I think we should just
write this off as "not a bug".

I'm a bit confused here though ... I haven't changed flex on that VPS
recently ... in fact, its dated Sep 15, 2007 ... so the builds have been
using the same flex for a long while now ...

Peter, is this a recently change you've noticed, or something that has
been like that for while now?

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#4Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Marc G. Fournier (#3)
Re: rc tarball built with older flex version?

On Monday 22 June 2009 00:17:06 Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:

I noticed that the rc1 tarball includes scanner files that are built
with an older flex version that generates warnings with our default
compilation flags. Since I have been running with -Werror by default for
a great while now, this caught my attention while testing the tarball.
Are we tracking this or are we just using whatever was installed on the
host that created the snapshot?

It's whatever is installed on svr1, but we don't change that often,
and I'm particularly not inclined to change it post-RC. We don't
recommend that people use -Werror to build, so I think we should just
write this off as "not a bug".

I'm a bit confused here though ... I haven't changed flex on that VPS
recently ... in fact, its dated Sep 15, 2007 ... so the builds have been
using the same flex for a long while now ...

Peter, is this a recently change you've noticed, or something that has
been like that for while now?

Well, I rarely test the actual release source tarball, so it might have been
like that forever.

#5Marc G. Fournier
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Peter Eisentraut (#4)
Re: rc tarball built with older flex version?

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

Well, I rarely test the actual release source tarball, so it might have
been like that forever.

'k ... I swore I haven't changed anything over there in awhile, so was
most confused as to where this sudden error came from ...

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