Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus writes: > Might I suggest changing the wording in the final release, then? The warning > sure looked dangerous; It only looks dangerous to those who don't actually read the full text of the message. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadc

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-17 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > > Really? 'cause I got the warning from the Beta4 tarball. > > If you mean the configure warning, sure, but the build won't fail. Might I suggest changing the wording in the final release, then? The warning sure looked dangerous; I aborted the build and went looking for bison 1.875 bi

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-17 Thread Andreas Pflug
Josh Berkus wrote: Peter, I can't seem to find a Bison 1.875 RPM for a SuSE 8.1 machine I can't afford to upgrade right now. Does such an animal exist? Help! Install it from source if you cannot find a package. Hmmm ... still getting the "Bison Too Old" warning messag

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> No, because it only matters to people who build from a CVS pull instead >> of using a tarball. I'd think most of the people in the first category >> have already dealt with the issue... > Really? 'cause I got the warning from the Beta4 tarball. If you

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-16 Thread Josh Berkus
TOm, > No, because it only matters to people who build from a CVS pull instead > of using a tarball. I'd think most of the people in the first category > have already dealt with the issue... Really? 'cause I got the warning from the Beta4 tarball. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (I predict that we're going to get many more questions about Bison after we > release 7.4, since many major Linux distros don't yet include 1.875) No, because it only matters to people who build from a CVS pull instead of using a tarball. I'd think most

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-16 Thread Philip Yarra
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:43 am, Josh Berkus wrote: > (I predict that we're going to get many more questions about Bison after we > release 7.4, since many major Linux distros don't yet include 1.875) You only need bison if you are building from CVS - tarballs include the bison output files (AFAIK -

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-16 Thread Josh Berkus
Peter, > If you installed from source into /usr/local/bin and you have an older > version in /usr/bin, you may need to run 'hash -r' or 'rehash' to make the > shell forget about the old installation in the path. Yeah, that was it. Thanks! (I predict that we're going to get many more questions a

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus writes: > Hmmm ... still getting the "Bison Too Old" warning message. How can I tell > where Postgres is looking for Bison? checking for bison... bison -y ^ I tells you right there. If you installed from source into /usr/local/bin and you have an older vers

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-16 Thread Josh Berkus
Peter, > > I can't seem to find a Bison 1.875 RPM for a SuSE 8.1 machine I can't afford > > to upgrade right now. Does such an animal exist? Help! > > Install it from source if you cannot find a package. Hmmm ... still getting the "Bison Too Old" warning message. How can I tell where Postg

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Josh Berkus writes: I can't seem to find a Bison 1.875 RPM for a SuSE 8.1 machine I can't afford to upgrade right now. Does such an animal exist? Help! Install it from source if you cannot find a package. or build from an SRPM - the dependencies are quite m

Re: [HACKERS] Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?

2003-10-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus writes: > I can't seem to find a Bison 1.875 RPM for a SuSE 8.1 machine I can't afford > to upgrade right now. Does such an animal exist? Help! Install it from source if you cannot find a package. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadc