Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This would turn off the make failure when an old bison is called from > > the makefile? > > Rephrase that as "this would give bison the right to fail of its own > accord, rather than our prejudging its ability to cope." > > Given bison's on-again-off-again track record in recent releases, > I don't think it's wise to wire in a non-overridable assumption > that bison < X is broken and bison >= X is good. A hint that > bison < X might be broken is fine --- but let's not pretend that > configure is smarter than the user.
I just don't like to add bloat/document another configure option that has a _very_ limited usefulness. Can we not document it and just print it when we report the bison failure? Should we just allow an environment variable to over-ride it? -- 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 8: explain analyze is your friend
