bison conflicts (was Re: plpgsql failure in databases/postgresql80-server)

[Anthony Chavez]

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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:42:04 +0100 Simon Barner <barner at gmx.de> wrote:

> Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>> Yeah, it seems I need to a dependency for bison on FreeBSD 4.x. I  
>> should have known better...
>
> Hi,
>
> I have FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE here, which comes without bison in the base
> system. There is a USE_BISON marcro in bsd.port.mk, but it won't help in
> this situation because it will pull in the devel/bison port (which
> currently is 1.75).
>
> The right way is probably a BUILD_DEPEND on devel/bison1875, but the
> problem is that it is marked CONFLICTing with devel/bison :(

My thoughts exactly.

I just deinstalled devel/bison, installed devel/bison1875, and
re-attempted the upgrade, which was successful on both my 4.11 and 5.3
boxen.

I'm sure the bison maintainer is aware of this issue, but I've CC:'ed
this to him anyhow. ;-)

Sean: have you considered implementing some mechanism to easily switch
bison versions, allowing them to coexist on one system?

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