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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@indy.celebration.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [q] postgres95 help needed
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 11:09:11 -0800
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Robert Chalmers wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have been trying to get postgres to compile, and am getting stuck
> with an error,
> 
> obj/PARSER.o: undefined symbol `_yy_flush_buffer' referenced from text segment
> gmake[1]: *** [postgres] Error 1
> 
> Has anybody any experience with this package?
> 
We (at work) just installed postgres95 from the original
postgres dist (not from ports.)  No problems, except make
sure that you have the proper version of flex to translate
the .l files.  I believe that there are some instructions
in the postgres docs.  (I think that there have been
some bugs in one of the recent flex versions, and the
ones in FreeBSD have been too old.)

So, it shouldn't be a problem if you grab the proper
version of flex from:

ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov

John
dyson@freebsd.org