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Add note that building from CVS requires bison and flex, whereas

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building from a distribution tarball does not.
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Tom Lane 2007-07-10 23:03:18 +00:00
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<!-- $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>
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<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">