Re: problems with building recent cvs snaphots

Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> writes:
> Hubert depesz Lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)pl> writes:
>> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 07:28:16PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Or use a tarball distribution (beta3 or the nightly snapshot).
>>
>> and precompiled binaries are not really an option.

> Tom means a tarball source distribution. You don't have to run Bison
> when building from a tarball (the Bison-generated files are already
> included); you do when building from CVS. Clear?

Also, if you're willing to build Postgres from source, I fail to see why
you're resisting building bison from source. It's not hard:

tar xfz bison-1.75.tar.gz
cd bison-1.75
make
make check -- optional
make install -- probably need to do this step as root

and then make sure /usr/local/bin is in your PATH ahead of whereever
the standard bison lives. When your distro updates, clean out
/usr/local and you're back to normal.

regards, tom lane