Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable script to generate preproc.y in build process. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable script to generate preproc.y in build process.
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Msg-id 49205482.10104@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable script to generate preproc.y in build process.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable script to generate preproc.y in build process.
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:39:49PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder how many other projects' code will break?
>>>
>
>
>> Me too. The ecpg.trailer code was just copied from the old preproc.y so I guess
>> this bug has been in before we moved to the new automatic build.
>>
>
> If so then we would need to back-patch, but if I'm correctly identifying
> the corresponding code in 8.3, it has a semicolon where expected.
>
>
>> Could we get one of the buildfarm members to upgrade to bison 2.4?
>> Even if we now compile through cleanly on that one test system, I'd
>> rather have a regular build using this new version.
>>
>
> Yeah, this would be a good idea.
>
>
>

It's about 2 weeks old, by the look of it; you're not going to see it
rolling out to most distributions for a while.

But maybe someone would like to upgrade their buildfarm member
regardless of that.

cheers

andrew





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