Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> I can see making a new bison required only when the version is *devel.
> That way, folks testing CVS and even the *devel snapshots would need a
> new bison, but our normal users wouldn't.
Even then, if they're using a snapshot they shouldn't need it.
Perhaps a combination of your idea and Alvaro's: set things up so that
we fail only when bison is actually invoked by the makefiles, plus
provide a way to override the version check if it's wrong.
regards, tom lane