Re: simple make check failures

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jonathan Scott <jwscott@vanten.com> writes:
> > I checked my system, and bison is reporting itself as 1.875. I am using SuSE 9.0, and I did have to upgrade to get
thatconfiguration message to go away, AND to make it compile. 
 
> 
> > Could you recommend a way I could get bison to reproduce that message?
> 
> If you did just upgrade bison, I'd suggest "make maintainer-clean" and
> then rebuild.  I do not think the Postgres makefiles are able to detect
> that you installed a new bison, so they won't automatically re-run bison
> to build new output files.  We normally ship the bison output files as
> part of distribution tarballs, which is why "make clean" or even "make
> distclean" doesn't flush 'em.

I have updated the text warning about too-old bison to be clearer when
it is a problem:

! *** If you are going to modify the lexer files or build from CVS, the installed
! *** version of Bison is too old.  Bison version 1.875 or later is required.])

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