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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> writes:
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>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:39:49PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>> I wonder how many other projects' code will break?
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Yeah, this would be a good idea.
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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