Hello, On cfbot.cputube.org, we keep seeing random failures on appveyor (the CI provider it uses for Windows) in this step:
- appveyor-retry cinst winflexbison "cinst" is the apt/yum/pkg-like tool from the Chocolatey package system, but unfortunately its repository is frequently unavailable. "appveyor-retry" was added to cfbot by a pull request from David Fettter (thanks!) and that reduced the rate of bogus failures quite a lot by retrying 3 times, but I'm still seeing a sea of red from time to time so I'd like to find a another source for those tools. Here's the full set of software that is already installed on the Windows build images: https://www.appveyor.com/docs/windows-images-software/ You can see MinGW, MSYS and Cygwin there, and I suspect that one of those is the answer, but I'm not familiar with them or what else might be available to install popular F/OSS bits and pieces on that operating system, because I really only know how to Unix. Maybe flex and bison are already installed somewhere or easily installable with a shell command? Would someone who knows about development on Windows like to make a recommendation, or perhaps provide a tweaked version of the attached patch[1]? Thanks, [1] Instructions: apply to the PG source, push to a public github branch (or gitlab, kiln, ...), log into appveyor.com with your github (or ...) account, add the project, watch it build and test.
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