On Monday 21 December 2009 04:23:57 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > On Monday 21 December 2009 02:23:39 Robert Haas wrote:
> >> A more important point is whether we really need to make this
> >> dependent on Perl 5.6 or later.
> >
> > I dont see a platform without perl 5.6 where a new enough flex/bison is
> > available...
>
> That argument only holds water if you are willing to follow the same
> rules as we use for flex/bison, ie, they are not needed to build from
> a source tarball. Otherwise this *is* moving the goalposts on required
> tool support.
The patch already does that if I understood John correctly.
Andres