Re: simple make check failures

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jonathan Scott <jwscott(at)vanten(dot)com> writes:
> > I checked my system, and bison is reporting itself as 1.875. I am using SuSE 9.0, and I did have to upgrade to get that configuration message to go away, AND to make it compile.
>
> > Could you recommend a way I could get bison to reproduce that message?
>
> If you did just upgrade bison, I'd suggest "make maintainer-clean" and
> then rebuild. I do not think the Postgres makefiles are able to detect
> that you installed a new bison, so they won't automatically re-run bison
> to build new output files. We normally ship the bison output files as
> part of distribution tarballs, which is why "make clean" or even "make
> distclean" doesn't flush 'em.

I have updated the text warning about too-old bison to be clearer when
it is a problem:

! *** If you are going to modify the lexer files or build from CVS, the installed
! *** version of Bison is too old. Bison version 1.875 or later is required.])

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