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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Mohab Yaser <[email protected]>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Problem while installing PostgreSQL using make
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:37:48 -0400
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Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> writes:
> Flex/Bison are only required when building from a Git tree, downloading a
> source archive and building from there might be easier to get started.
> 	https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/

That's no longer true I think - as of v17 the source tarballs won't
contain any generated files, so you do need flex and bison if you want
to do any sort of development.  I am mildly astonished to hear that
too-old versions of those tools aren't extinct in the wild, though.

In any case I agree with the recommendation to install and use git
rather than downloading source tarballs.

			regards, tom lane






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