Eric L wrote
> I am installing postgresql from source on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 and when I
> run the ./configure script, it is successful, but when I run make it fails
> with an error:
>
> "ERROR: `flex' is missing on your system. It is needed to create the file
> `bootscanner.c'. You can either get flex from a GNU mirror site or
> download an official distribution of PostgreSQL, which contains
> pre-packaged flex output"
> I get this same error for "bison". I can install it with "sudo apt-get
> install bison" and "sudo apt-get install flex". However shouldn't the
> ./configure script be checking for these first?
> Eric
Google: postgresql bison
http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/bison-flex-and-configure-td5789215.html
David J.
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