From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <520083510237-0001(at)t-online(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: byacc problem with FreeBSD ... |
Date: | 2000-09-25 22:02:44 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0009251901390.4209-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > damn ... I thought that our configure refused anything *but* bison? how
> > come its allowying me to use byacc? :)
>
> I think it should try to use the system yacc if it can't find bison.
> It is possible to build our grammar with non-bison yaccs, since we
> aren't using any bison-only features (not true for lex/flex,
> unfortunately).
>
> Persuading the local yacc to enlarge its tables enough to accept our
> grammar is an exercise for the user ;-). I have some notes about
> making HPUX's yacc work in FAQ_HPUX.
>
> But our distro should certainly use bison to build the derived files.
> You used to have bison on hub.org, what happened to it?
Not sure ... its in ports, and it isn't one that I can think of having
ever removed *scratch head* And we haven't done any major hardware
upgrades recently that would have caused me to rebuild /usr/local :(
Maybe up until recently it actually squeeked by on byacc *shrug*
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