Re: ecpg and bison again

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:14:32AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I agree it's not pleasant to be blocked like this. Is there any way we
> can persuade the bison guys to be a little more urgent about releasing a
> fix? (If 1.49 is just an internal beta version, maybe a back-patch to
> their last released version?)

I had the feeling they rewrote some major parts. You cannot back-patch
that. But then I may err on this.

> Another possibility is to temporarily disable ecpg from being built by
> default (eg, just remove it from src/interfaces/Makefile) and then go
> ahead and commit your changes. Then, anyone wanting to test it would
> have to (a) have a suitable bison installed and (b) manually go into
> interfaces/ecpg and say "make all install". I can't say that I like
> this idea, but it seems better than putting derived files into CVS.

That would be possible too.

> PS: BTW, are any of the bison people at Red Hat? Maybe I could apply
> a little internal pressure...

No idea, sorry.

Michael
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