See https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:45 PM Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > The only bison ports I find listed at 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]> > 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 >> >> >> > --- > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > 503 King Farm Blvd #101 > Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334 > > >
