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

building from a distribution tarball does not.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml
index 081c766ad7..771e135e92 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml
@@ -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">