Re: [BUGS] incompatible pointer type

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Young writes: > As I tested, if you explicit appoint a union tag, the OpenBSD m4 and > GNU m4 work identically. > And This explicit definition just corresponding to the forward-declaration. > As mentioned in > http://www.gnu.org/s/bison/manual/html_node/Union-Decl.html > This feature is a

Re: [BUGS] incompatible pointer type

2011-10-19 Thread Robert Young
As I tested, if you explicit appoint a union tag, the OpenBSD m4 and GNU m4 work identically. And This explicit definition just corresponding to the forward-declaration. As mentioned in http://www.gnu.org/s/bison/manual/html_node/Union-Decl.html This feature is a POSIX extension. I don't know wha

Re: [BUGS] incompatible pointer type

2011-10-18 Thread Robert Young
It is hard to figure out,but I inspect the source code,told me: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.9/sys.tar.gz:/usr.bin/m4/PSD.doc/m4.ms: Line35: m4.ms 6.3 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 05:12, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Young writes: >> I've update my m4 to version 1.4.13 >> from:

Re: [BUGS] incompatible pointer type

2011-10-18 Thread Robert Young
So,I think it'd better to check the m4 compatiblity in ./configure On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 05:10, Robert Young wrote: > Perfect! > I've update my m4 to version 1.4.13 > from: > http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.9/packages/amd64/m4-1.4.13.tgz > the problem solved perfectly! > Thank You !!! > -

Re: [BUGS] incompatible pointer type

2011-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Young writes: > I've update my m4 to version 1.4.13 > from: > http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.9/packages/amd64/m4-1.4.13.tgz > the problem solved perfectly! Just for the archives' sake, can you confirm which m4 version you had before? regards, tom lane -- Se

Re: [BUGS] incompatible pointer type

2011-10-18 Thread Robert Young
Perfect! I've update my m4 to version 1.4.13 from: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.9/packages/amd64/m4-1.4.13.tgz the problem solved perfectly! Thank You !!! # /usr/bin/gm4 --version m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.13 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or late

Re: [BUGS] incompatible pointer type

2011-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > A little bit of googling suggests that this is a bug or incompatibility > with openbsd's m4 (a tool that bison relies on): > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.parsers.bison.bugs/2708 Scratch that: closer reading of the page says that the complainant was not using some openbsd-specifi

Re: [BUGS] incompatible pointer type

2011-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Young writes: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 18:22, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hmm, what version of bison are you using? > # /usr/bin/bison -V > bison (GNU Bison) 2.3 > Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman. > Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the

Re: [BUGS] incompatible pointer type

2011-10-18 Thread Robert Young
# /usr/bin/bison -V bison (GNU Bison) 2.3 Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman. Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. # From:

Re: [BUGS] incompatible pointer type

2011-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Young writes: > Platform: > OpenBSD 4.9 GENERIC.MP#819 amd64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz Hmm, what version of bison are you using? Because the ones I've dealt with emit typedef union YYSTYPE { ... } YYSTYPE; which makes the code correct as-is. Your proposed patch seem

[BUGS] incompatible pointer type

2011-10-18 Thread Robert Young
Platform: OpenBSD 4.9 GENERIC.MP#819 amd64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz Error: gmake[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/pgxc/git/src/pl/plpgsql/src' /usr/bin/bison -d -o pl_gram.c gram.y gcc -DPGXC -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat