Re: incompatible pointer type - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Perfect!
I've update my m4 to version 1.4.13
from:
http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.9/packages/amd64/m4-1.4.13.tgz
the problem solved perfectly!
Thank You !!!

# /usr/bin/gm4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.13
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htm=
l>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Rene' Seindal.
#
# M4=3D/usr/bin/m4 /usr/bin/bison -d -o
pl_gram.with_OpenBSD_4.9_original_m4.c gram.y
# M4=3D/usr/bin/gm4 /usr/bin/bison -d -o pl_gram.with_GNU_m4_1.4.13.c gram.y
# diff -u pl_gram.with_OpenBSD_4.9_original_m4.c pl_gram.with_GNU_m4_1.4.13=
.c
--- pl_gram.with_OpenBSD_4.9_original_m4.c      Wed Oct 19 04:55:38 2011
+++ pl_gram.with_GNU_m4_1.4.13.c        Wed Oct 19 04:55:46 2011
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@
 #endif

 #if ! defined YYSTYPE && ! defined YYSTYPE_IS_DECLARED
-typedef union
+typedef union YYSTYPE
 #line 115 "gram.y"
 {
                core_YYSTYPE                    core_yystype;
@@ -453,8 +453,8 @@
                PLpgSQL_stmt_fetch              *fetch;
                PLpgSQL_case_when               *casewhen;
 }
-/* Line 193 of yacc.c.  */
-#line 458 "pl_gram.with_OpenBSD_4.9_original_m4.c"
+/* Line 187 of yacc.c.  */
+#line 458 "pl_gram.with_GNU_m4_1.4.13.c"
        YYSTYPE;
 # define yystype YYSTYPE /* obsolescent; will be withdrawn */
 # define YYSTYPE_IS_DECLARED 1
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@


 /* Line 216 of yacc.c.  */
-#line 483 "pl_gram.with_OpenBSD_4.9_original_m4.c"
+#line 483 "pl_gram.with_GNU_m4_1.4.13.c"

 #ifdef short
 # undef short
@@ -4077,7 +4077,7 @@


 /* Line 1267 of yacc.c.  */
-#line 4081 "pl_gram.with_OpenBSD_4.9_original_m4.c"
+#line 4081 "pl_gram.with_GNU_m4_1.4.13.c"
       default: break;
     }
   YY_SYMBOL_PRINT ("-> $$ =3D", yyr1[yyn], &yyval, &yyloc);
#

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:01, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I wrote:
>> A little bit of googling suggests that this is a bug or incompatibility
>> with openbsd's m4 (a tool that bison relies on):
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.parsers.bison.bugs/2708
>
> Scratch that: closer reading of the page says that the complainant was not
> using some openbsd-specific copy of m4, but GNU m4 1.4.4, and that the
> problem is not reproducible with newer versions of m4. =C2=A0So what it s=
eems
> to boil down to is "get a newer m4". =C2=A0Especially if you've got 1.4.4.
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 =C2=A0regards, tom lane
>