From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:03:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note that building from CVS requires bison and flex, whereas
X-Git-Tag: REL8_3_BETA1~475
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bf75e2a3c755c98c5ccdae5b02356bb0be0cf727;p=postgresql

Add note that building from CVS requires bison and flex, whereas
building from a distribution tarball does not.
---

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml
index 8627444c76..36b59846e5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml,v 1.44 2007/05/30 18:00:08 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml,v 1.45 2007/07/10 23:03:18 tgl Exp $ -->
 
 <appendix id="cvs">
  <appendixinfo>
@@ -157,11 +157,19 @@ cvs update
   <para>
    <productname>CVS</productname> has deficiencies.  For example,
    generating diffs that add or remove files requires write access to the
-   CVS repository.  To work around such difficiencies, use
+   CVS repository.  To work around that deficiency, use
    <productname>cvsutils</productname>, which is packaged in several
    operating systems, and is available in source form at <ulink
    url="http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/"></ulink>.
   </para>
+
+  <para>
+   Note that building <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> from a CVS
+   pull requires reasonably up-to-date versions of <application>bison</>
+   and <application>flex</>, which are not needed to build from a distribution
+   tarball because the files made with them are pre-built in a tarball.
+   Otherwise the tool requirements are the same as building from source.
+  </para>
  </sect1>
 
  <sect1 id="cvs-tree">