Tom Lane wrote: > Jonathan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I checked my system, and bison is reporting itself as 1.875. I am using SuSE 9.0, > > and I did have to upgrade to get that configuration message to go away, AND to > > make it compile. > > > Could you recommend a way I could get bison to reproduce that message? > > If you did just upgrade bison, I'd suggest "make maintainer-clean" and > then rebuild. I do not think the Postgres makefiles are able to detect > that you installed a new bison, so they won't automatically re-run bison > to build new output files. We normally ship the bison output files as > part of distribution tarballs, which is why "make clean" or even "make > distclean" doesn't flush 'em.
I have updated the text warning about too-old bison to be clearer when it is a problem: ! *** If you are going to modify the lexer files or build from CVS, the installed ! *** version of Bison is too old. Bison version 1.875 or later is required.]) -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
