Usual installs don't need bison because the tarball has pregenerated bison output files.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:12:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > I believe 'configure' will bleat about a too-old bison, but it won't > > refuse to proceed --- and the warning is easy to miss in the pages of > > output that configure produces. > > Maybe it should throw an error and refuse to continue if the version is > too old, but the message be verbose enough to let the user know of a > separate switch to configure that would allow it to continue the > configuration ignoring the bison version. > > Somethink like > $ ./configure > error: your bison is too old. Use --ignore-bison if you don't need it > $ ./configure --ignore-bison > [succeeds] > > I've seen similar things in other projects... > > -- > Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) > Major Fambrough: You wish to see the frontier? > John Dunbar: Yes sir, before it's gone. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
