ports/59288: postgresql-devel must depend on bison1875, not bison

[Sheldon Hearn]

>Number:         59288
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       postgresql-devel must depend on bison1875, not bison
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 14 06:50:23 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sheldon Hearn
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Seaside Software
>Environment:

N/A

>Description:

The databases/postgresql-devel port depends on devel/bison1875, but if
devel/bison is already installed, the following build error occurs:

plpgsql/src'
bison -y -d  gram.y
NONE:0: /usr/local/bin/gm4: ERROR: EOF in string
sed -e 's/yy/plpgsql_yy/g' -e 's/YY/PLPGSQL_YY/g' < y.tab.c > ./pl_gram.c
cannot open y.tab.c: No such file or directory
gmake[4]: *** [pl.tab.h] Error 2

If you look at config.log, you'll see this:

configure:4205: WARNING:
*** The installed version of Bison is too old.  PostgreSQL needs
*** Bison version 1.875 or later.

>How-To-Repeat:

Deinstall devel/bison1875.
Install devel/bison.
Try to install devel/postgresql-devel.

>Fix:

I'm not sure that this can be easily fixed without some jiggery-pokery
in the bison ports.  Alternatively, the postgresql-devel port could be
given a pre-configure target that tests the version of bison installed.

In fact, these ideas only just occured to me.  I was expecting the
postgresql maintainer to close this PR as unsolvable; the PR would still
be useful to folks who run into the problem.

But maybe the situation can be improved.  What do you think, Sean?

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