Re: cvs build failure

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Maybe make configure act as though bison is missing? Not sure. It
> >> seems like that could create unnecessary problems in other cases.
>
> > One trick would be to set YACC to some special value like
> > "bison.too.old" and test for that when YACC is actually called from the
> > Makefile.
>
> I kinda like Alvaro's suggestion of an --ignore-bison-version option
> to configure to suppress checking the version, but otherwise error out
> if we think bison is too old.
>
> The advantage to that is that you could manually override the automatic
> check if you had reason to know it was wrong (eg, you could see it'd
> misparsed the bison version string, or something). Also, it'd make
> sense to include that option by default in RPM builds, where you'd know
> you had up-to-date bison output files already included in the SRPM.

I can see making a new bison required only when the version is *devel.
That way, folks testing CVS and even the *devel snapshots would need a
new bison, but our normal users wouldn't.

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