Re: ECPG won't compile anymore

Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:29:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I'd be inclined to say that you don't commit until bison 1.49 is
> > officially released.  Got any idea when that will be?
> 
> No, that's the problem. ECPG and the backend parser are running out of
> sync. After all bison's release may be later than our next one. 
> 
> I cannot commit even simple bugfixes anymore as my source tree
> already has the uncompilable bison file. So I would have to work on two
> different source trees. I don't exactly like that.

Are we the only ones up against this problem?  Hard to imagine we are
the only ones up against this limit in bison.  Are there other options? 
I don't see how we can distribute ecpg in 7.3 without some kind of fix.

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