On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:24 PM Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do I need to uninstall the newer versions of bison? or will the build of > openscad automatically use the older one once that has been installed? > You can only have one version active at at time, like with any port. > > I note that other ports I’ve installed, namely, gstreamer1, kdelibs4, > p5.28-config-autoconfig, and webkit2-gtk all depend on bision. So will they > break if I need to uninstall the newer bison? > Probably they will not break. But anyway for openscad bison is only used at build time so after installation, you can re-activate the newer version of bison. > > On 3 Dec2020, at 5:09 PM, David Strubbe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Murray, > > Please look at this ticket: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61055. Try > the older bison version as listed. > > The other ticket is talking about whether software should be updated in > MacPorts, which is not offering advice aimed at users. > > David > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:04 PM Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> How do I follow the recommendation from trac.macports.org ticket #61055 >> about "updating openscad to a newer version first; maybe upstream has >> already fixed it", pointng to https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61056, >> when I cannot install openscad in the first place. I'm getting the >> previously reported error: >> >> {{{ >> fatal error: 'parser.tab.h' file not found >> }}} >> >> I used the "port livecheck openscad" command to find that the new >> version is 2019.05, but even the MacPorts openscad-devel version is only >> 2018.04. >> >> How proceed? >> --- >> Murray Eisenberg [email protected] >> 503 King Farm Blvd #101 >> Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334 >> >> >> > --- > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > 503 King Farm Blvd #101 > Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334 > > >
