Re: What bison versions are installed on buildfarm machines?

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>configure doesn't actually report the bison version, but it does complain if
>>the version is less than 1.875, and I don't see that on rook.
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>Sigh, I haven't woken up entirely today :-( ... of course, this is a
>flex macro we are talking about, not bison.
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>Our configure script does complain about flex 2.5.3, and I don't see
>that warning in rook's output, but perhaps some even older flex version
>is installed there?  Hard to believe ... even 2.5.4 is pretty ancient.
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Not that hard to believe. 2.5.4 is what the major distributions are 
shipping.
Even FC4 comes with 2.5.4a. The only reason I can see for this is that Flex
is now considered a NON-GNU project.

The currently supported Flex is up to 2.5.31.

Joshua D. Drake


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