Re: Why so many out-of-disk-space failures on buildfarm machines?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> BTW, while I'm thinking of it --- it'd be real nice if the buildfarm
>> "configuration" printout included the flex and bison version numbers.

> Interestingly, none of our tools actually outputs the bison/flex 
> versions - perhaps configure should be doing that.

Hmm, that's a good solution, especially since it'll start working right
away instead of waiting for buildfarm owners to update their scripts ;-)

I think I can get it to dochecking for flex... /usr/local/bin/flex 2.5.4
... does that seem reasonable?

> We do log the gcc 
> version (look in the config.log if you want to make sure).

Oh, that seems to be something in the base autoconf macros rather than
anything we put in.  I don't especially like hiding it in config.log
--- who reads that?
        regards, tom lane