Re: bison 3.0

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Leigh <leight@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 December 2014 at 07:52, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I just updated my notebook to Fedora 21 and am no longer able to >> build PHP on it since I now have bison 3.0.2 instead of bison 2.7. >> >> bison 3.0 is blacklisted in Zend/acinclude.m4. Is bison 3.0 >> incompatible with our parser specification? If so, will it be >> upgraded? It's not really a good situation to be incompatible >> with current versions of essential tools such as bison. >> >> Best, >> Sebastian >> > > I've been building fine on a Debian based system with bison 3.0.2 just > by commenting out the exclusion. > > There is also this: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/685 In the worst scenario, there is also : downgrade your Bison. That's what we do as RMs, to have a very accurate version of Bison when we prepare the builds. Bison is very easy to compile, and so to replace your default OS's one is easy. Julien.P