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POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name : Eugenio Pierno
Your email address : pierno@unina.it
System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : Alpha EV560
Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Digital Unix 4.0d
PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.3): PostgreSQL-6.5.3
Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) : alpha cc
Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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libplpgsql failing to compile with the following error message:
cc: Error: pl_comp.c, line 73: The type of the tentatively-defined variable
"plpgsql_yytext" is incomplete at the end of the compilation unit.
char plpgsql_yytext[];
_________^
gmake: *** [pl_comp.o] Error 1
The backend compiles successfully
NOTE: I installed GNU flex 2.5.4 because supplied flex doesn't support the
-l flag
Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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configure --with-template=alpha_cc --with-CC=cc --without-CXX
gmake all
If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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FIX:
replace
char plpgsql_yytext[];
with
extern char plpgsql_yytext[];
in postgresql-6.5.3/src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_comp.c line 73
-- Eugenio
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Eugenio Pierno
System & Network Support Group
Computer Centre
Second University of Naples
Voice: +39 081 5667014
Fax: +39 081 5667013
