Re: [HACKERS] flex on win64 - workaround for flex: fatal internal error, exec failed

2011-07-04 Thread Brar Piening
schrieb Craig Ringer: I haven't managed to figure out exactly what's broken. For the benefit of anyone else having problems like this or who might find this via a search later, though: just install msys and use the current flex from msys. It works perfectly in Pg's build environment and it's

Re: [HACKERS] flex on win64 - workaround for flex: fatal internal error, exec failed

2011-07-04 Thread Craig Ringer
On 4/07/2011 2:36 PM, Brar Piening wrote: As you might also want to use git for developing with postgres its possible that all you need is already in place. As I use msysgit my usual way of dealing with flex and bison dependencies is putting $ENV{PATH}=$ENV{PATH} . ';C:\Program Files

[HACKERS] flex on win64 - workaround for flex: fatal internal error, exec failed

2011-07-03 Thread Craig Ringer
Hi all On my win64 build machine I've been suffering from hard to track down errors from flex like: flex: fatal internal error, exec failed ... even though I have m4 properly installed and whether or not the M4 environment variable is set to point to my M4 executable. It all works fine