Re: Autoconf test for incompatible version of flex

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> > I inquired about this problem elsewhere, it's not a bug, it's an API change.
> > Until postgres "ports" to the new API it won't work with newer versions of
> > Flex.
>
> If their intent was to break things, why wasn't this called flex 3.0?
> Or at least 2.6?  Calling it a minor version bump has to violate a
> truth-in-advertising law or two.

Or something else like "glex", since it doesn't really look much like flex any
more... I don't know whether it will be possible to port to the new API and
still have postgresql compile with the old API.

Incidentally, for anyone else compiling on debian there's a flex-old package.
I can't install it because of some other dependencies, so i just reverted to
the old flex.

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greg