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[ Moved the discussion to -hackers ]

>   Also, is our lex and yacc identical to flex and byacc?  I know some 
> stuff rely on the GNU versions (ex. Postgres95), and don't work with the 
> FreeBSD ones.

They are as exact as can be.  Also, there isn't a 'GNU' versions of
Berkeley yacc, although there is GNU bison.  And, flex is the only
freely available 'lex' package around, so it's got to be the correct
program.  But, it may be the wrong versions (newer or older) than what
PostGres expects.


Nate