Re: Upgrading our minimum required flex version for 8.5

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I see that a good-sized
>> fraction of the buildfarm is still on flex 2.5.4 and will therefore go
>> red when this goes in.  Should I hold off a bit longer, or is committing
>> the best way to get their attention?
>>
>>   
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> Probably the latter. I will update my various members. I see that 
> 2.5.4 is the default on my FBSD install, which is the latest, so for 
> this and maybe some other current platforms we'll be imposing a bit of 
> extra burden to build, but I guess that's the price of progress.
>
>

OK, the fly in this ointment turns out to be MSVC. The latest flex from 
GnuWin32 is 2.5.4a, and building 2.5.35 for Windows is turning out to be 
quite a pain. Luckily, MinGW has a pre-built modified 2.5.33 available, 
and I have installed this (also needed msys-regex), and then I jury 
rigged my MSVC build to use it, so we still have one MSVC working OK in 
the buildfarm. But we can hardly ask people to install MinGW/MSys so 
they can build with MSVC, that's horribly ugly. I'll work on getting 
version 2.5.35 build for Windows in a way that works standalone, and 
push it somewhere (maybe the dev wiki).

cheers

andrew