Folks,

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!

-- 
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco


Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:38:01 -0700
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?
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   peter_e@gmx.net


Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:34:00 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?


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 modest, I believe

cheers

andrew


Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:26:32 -0400
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?
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 Postgres is looking for Bison?

-- 
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco


Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:19:13 -0700
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?
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
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.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:42:44 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?
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 about Bison after we 
release 7.4, since many major Linux distros don't yet include 1.875)

-- 
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco


Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:43:54 -0700
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?
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 - correct me if I am mistaken anyone).

Regards, Philip.


Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:51:15 +1000
Philip Yarra <philip@utiba.com>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> 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 of the people in the first category
have already dealt with the issue...

			regards, tom lane

Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:31:54 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1? 
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
 San Francisco


Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:47:32 -0700
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> 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 mean the configure warning, sure, but the build won't fail.

			regards, tom lane

Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:06:42 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1? 
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 message.  How can I tell 
>where Postgres is looking for Bison?
>
>  
>
I got the same problem when I upgraded my SuSE 8.1. Try "which bison" to 
locate it; usually, SuSE will install in /usr/bin, while packages 
installed from source will install to /usr/local/bin, so the older bison 
would take precedence.

Regards,
Andreas



Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:30:55 +0200
Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?
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 
binaries.   We should let people know that the warning is non-fatal so they 
don't repeat my experience.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:30:02 -0700
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?
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   peter_e@gmx.net


Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:55:02 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Re: Bison 1.875 for SuSE Linux 8.1?