Is it not possible to check when configure is run for the presence of the bison output files, and only fail if one or more is absent and the bison version is too low?
just a thought. andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Markus Bertheau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Larry Rosenman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] cvs build failure > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can see making a new bison required only when the version is *devel. > > That way, folks testing CVS and even the *devel snapshots would need a > > new bison, but our normal users wouldn't. > > Even then, if they're using a snapshot they shouldn't need it. > > Perhaps a combination of your idea and Alvaro's: set things up so that > we fail only when bison is actually invoked by the makefiles, plus > provide a way to override the version check if it's wrong. > > regards, tom lane > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
