Re: PHP 5.4.10 can not build Zend/PHP parsers with bison 2.6.5

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Christopher Jones wrote: > On 01/14/2013 05:16 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > > This is a bug I think. I recently saw that PHP had been updated > > to 5.4.10 and I decided to update my php bits in /usr/local. I was > > quite surprised to see in the configure output this warning about > > bison : > > > > checking for bison... bison -y > > checking for bison version... invalid > > configure: WARNING: bison versions supported for regeneration of the > > Zend/PHP parsers: 1.28 1.35 1.75 1.875 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.4.1 2.4.2 2.4.3 > > 2.5 2.5.1 2.6 2.6.1 2.6.2 (found: 2.6.5). > > > > This seems odd to me as bison 2.6.5 builds and tests perfectly > > on my Solaris 10 server and so therefore I wonder what these PHP > > folks are on about? Is this a "Warning" or a real configure fault? > > If the latter then I need to backout bison in order to build PHP and > > then re-install a perfectly functional bison ? > > Unless you are hacking PHP you can ignore Bison. Check the Makefile > for where it is used. The PHP distribution contains > Zend/zend_language_parser.[ch] and php-5.5/Zend/zend_ini_parser.[ch] > already built from their respective .y files so bison is not generally > invoked when building PHP. > > Of course, if 2.6.5 is verified than it should be added to > bison_version_list in Zend/acinclude.m4. Feel free to regenerate the > parsers with it, review the test suite results, and create a github > pull request. I think we should retire this silly check, as it needs updating every time there is a new version. Instead, we should blacklist versions that *don't* work. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine