Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Patch for more readable parse error messages

Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE> writes:
> ... Somewhere in between vanilla lex and flex is also POSIX lex,
> which does support exclusive start conditions but no <<EOF>>.

I noticed that in the flex manual.  Does it help us any?  That is,
are there a useful number of lexes out there that do the full POSIX
spec?  If flex is our only real choice for exclusive start conditions
then it's pointless to avoid <<EOF>>.

> Anyone for getting rid of GNU make?

No ;-).  GNU make has enough important features that there is no
near-equivalent non-GNU make.  VPATH, for example.  One thing I hope
we will be able to do sometime soon is build in an object directory
tree separate from the source tree... can't realistically do that
with any non-GNU make that I've heard of.
        regards, tom lane