Re: backend/parser compile prob

Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> /usr/bin/flex -CF -o'scan.c' scan.l
> gcc -O2 -pipe -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I. -I../../../src/include   -c -o gram.o gram.c
> In file included from gram.y:7990:
> scan.c:121: parse error before string constant
> scan.c:247: parse error before string constant
> scan.c:250: parse error before string constant
> scan.c:251: parse error before string constant
> ...

> What string constant?! Will try again later...

Which flex version are you using?  You need 2.5.4 --- the most recent
versions have broken backwards compatibility :-(.  I'm not sure what the
symptom looks like, though.
        regards, tom lane