The only bison ports I find listed at ports.macports.org <http://ports.macports.org/> are 3.74_0 (which is what I currently have installed). And “port info bison” shows ust that same version.
How do I find an earlier version? > On 3 Dec2020, at 5:33 PM, David Strubbe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:24 PM Murray Eisenberg <[email protected] > <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hello Murray, >> >> Please look at this ticket: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61055 >> <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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> How do I follow the recommendation from trac.macports.org >> <http://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 >> <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] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> 503 King Farm Blvd #101 >> Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334 >> >> > > --- > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > <mailto:[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
