Usual installs don't need bison because the tarball has pregenerated
bison output files.
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:12:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > I believe 'configure' will bleat about a too-old bison, but it won't
> > refuse to proceed --- and the warning is easy to miss in the pages of
> > output that configure produces.
>
> Maybe it should throw an error and refuse to continue if the version is
> too old, but the message be verbose enough to let the user know of a
> separate switch to configure that would allow it to continue the
> configuration ignoring the bison version.
>
> Somethink like
> $ ./configure
> error: your bison is too old. Use --ignore-bison if you don't need it
> $ ./configure --ignore-bison
> [succeeds]
>
> I've seen similar things in other projects...
>
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