Re: What does this configure warning mean?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What does this configure warning mean?
Date: 2009-10-14 21:26:51
Message-ID: 1255555611.22713.1.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 15:06 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> >
> > When I run ./configure, I get
> >
> > (...warning..)
> > (If you are using the official distribution of PostgreSQL then you do
> > not need to worry about this because the Flex output is pre-generated.)
> >
> > Well, I am am using the official distribution of PostreSQL and the
> > output is not pre-generated. Clearly this message only comes when you
> > build Postgres from source, in which case the output cannot be
> > pre-generated (can it?).
>
> I take it "official distribution" means "tarball" as different from a
> copy obtained thru CVS.

Maybe "If you are using an official release tarball of PostgreSQL", or
"an official release source code archive of PostgreSQL" if we want to
avoid the term "tarball".

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