Re: cvs build failure

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > This would turn off the make failure when an old bison is called from
> > the makefile?
>
> Rephrase that as "this would give bison the right to fail of its own
> accord, rather than our prejudging its ability to cope."
>
> Given bison's on-again-off-again track record in recent releases,
> I don't think it's wise to wire in a non-overridable assumption
> that bison < X is broken and bison >= X is good. A hint that
> bison < X might be broken is fine --- but let's not pretend that
> configure is smarter than the user.

I just don't like to add bloat/document another configure option that
has a _very_ limited usefulness. Can we not document it and just print
it when we report the bison failure? Should we just allow an environment
variable to over-ride it?

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