Re: Bison 2.1 on win32

Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> The attached patch seems to fix the build issue. Does it seem
>> acceptable/the right thing to do?
>
> No, it seems pretty bletcherous.

That's kind of what I thought :-)

>> Another option would be to just reject both 2.0 and 2.1 as broken to
>> build pg with, I guess...
>
> In bison 2.3 (which is shipping with Fedora Core 6), all the uses of
> __STDC__ seem to also test _MSC_VER:
>
> #if (defined __STDC__ || defined __C99__FUNC__ \
> || defined __cplusplus || defined _MSC_VER)
>
> If this fixes the problem, then I'd vote for just stating you need
> bison >= 2.3 (or 2.2?) to build on MSVC.

It certainly looks like it would fix it. However, the gnuwin32 project
doesn't have 2.3, not even 2.2. But let's add a check and say we need
it, and then we can fix it again once they do release that version if
it's broken still...

Do you happen to have a 2.2 around so you can see what happens there? Or
does someone else have that? So I know which version to test against...

//Magnus