Re: Old version of bison

2005-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway 
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:27:32PM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> Ports cvsup'ed yesterday,
> 
> $ cat /usr/ports/devel/bison/Makefile
> {snip}
> PORTNAME=   bison
> PORTVERSION=1.75
> PORTREVISION=   2
> {snip}
> 
> Is there any particular reason why ports are sticking with this version when
> 1.875 was released 2 years ago almost to the day?

Yes, the bison developers apparently don't understand why a
widely-used build tool should need to remain backwards-compatible with
itself (see also: autoconf, automake developers).

Kris


pgpYhZH5kinPh.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Re: Old version of bison

2005-01-04 Thread Kent Stewart 
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 04:13 am, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 03:55:42 -0800, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > If you have an uptodate port system you will find
> >
> > Port:   bison-1.875_4
> > Path:   /usr/ports/devel/bison1875
>
> Indeed.
>
> That'll teach me to hit [tab] twice after typing
> /usr/ports/devel/bison
>

What I find handy is a perl script called portsearch. It is located in
ports/Tools/scripts/

I moved it into a directory in my path. Then, I added an 
alias search'portsearch -n $1'

You can do interesting things like
search ^bison
Where the port name begins with bison. There are a number of other 
interesting options. They are covered in a README.

Make search does something similar but the output from portsearch is 
cleaner.

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
___
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Old version of bison

2005-01-04 Thread Godwin Stewart 
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 03:55:42 -0800, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If you have an uptodate port system you will find
> 
> Port:   bison-1.875_4
> Path:   /usr/ports/devel/bison1875

Indeed.

That'll teach me to hit [tab] twice after typing /usr/ports/devel/bison

Thanks.

- -- 
G. Stewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

QUARK:
The sound made by a well-bred duck:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFB2ohlK5oiGLo9AcYRAvn+AKCnX5a9qhC7ywR0KEwGZ3KwIzOPdQCfRH3n
s6Uh0PYkD0QrfFmHjR4ZCVU=
=2EKn
-END PGP SIGNATURE-
___
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: Old version of bison

2005-01-04 Thread BjÃrn KÃnig 
Godwin Stewart wrote:

> Is there any particular reason why ports are sticking with
> this version when 1.875 was released 2 years ago almost to
> the day?

>From the first commit comment of devel/bison1875:

  Some grammars require the new version of Bison (such as
  PostgreSQL), however the new bison also breaks many many
  ports. Compromise with a new port. Installs as bison and
  _not_ bison1875 and should be mutually exclusive to the
  main bison port. Hopefully the bison authors will clean
  up their product and this port can disappear when the base
  bison port is updated in the future or enough ports are
  updated to work with newer versions of bison.

http://www.freshports.org/devel/bison1875/

Regards BjÃrn

___
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Old version of bison

2005-01-04 Thread Kent Stewart 
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 03:27 am, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> Ports cvsup'ed yesterday,
>
> $ cat /usr/ports/devel/bison/Makefile
> {snip}
> PORTNAME=   bison
> PORTVERSION=1.75
> PORTREVISION=   2
> {snip}
>
> Is there any particular reason why ports are sticking with this
> version when 1.875 was released 2 years ago almost to the day?

If you have an uptodate port system you will find

Port:   bison-1.875_4
Path:   /usr/ports/devel/bison1875

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
___
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Old version of bison

2005-01-04 Thread Godwin Stewart 
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Ports cvsup'ed yesterday,

$ cat /usr/ports/devel/bison/Makefile
{snip}
PORTNAME=   bison
PORTVERSION=1.75
PORTREVISION=   2
{snip}

Is there any particular reason why ports are sticking with this version when
1.875 was released 2 years ago almost to the day?

- -- 
G. Stewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
-- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFB2n2kK5oiGLo9AcYRAvP1AJ94si7rV5CgrmHyudIprYhnHBNyMQCeN5SI
C62CGyfi6Fvg+xrZeuiihyM=
=C/hS
-END PGP SIGNATURE-
___
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"