Errors compiling Postgres (bison -maximum table size excceeded)

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Lee.

Carlos Correia writes:
 > I tried to compile the latest stable release in order of getting a JDBC
 > driver which has the DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()'s bug fixed and,
 > after invoking 'configure --with-java', I tried to compile it (with
 > 'gmake' - in the top directory).
 > It failed with this error:
 >
 > bison -y -d  preproc.y
 > preproc.y:5561: fatal error: maximum table size (32767) exceeded
 >
 > I'm running a Mandrake 9.0 distribution.
 >
 > Any one has an idea of how to fix this?