Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:19:03 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Hans Lambermont <hans@lambermont.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bison 1 and 2 Message-ID: <20060809211903.GA50741@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060703091702.GA83125@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> References: <20060703091702.GA83125@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org>
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:17:02AM +0200, Hans Lambermont wrote:
> While upgrading vlc-0.8.4a_2 to vlc-0.8.5_2 I ran into :
>=20
> =3D=3D=3D> bison-1.75_2,1 conflicts with installed package(s):
> bison-2.1_2
>=20
> In /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk I see for bison :
>=20
> .if defined(USE_BISON)
> BUILD_DEPENDS+=3D bison:${PORTSDIR}/devel/bison
> .endif
>=20
> I changed this into:
>=20
> .if defined(USE_BISON)
> BUILD_DEPENDS+=3D bison:${PORTSDIR}/devel/bison2
> .endif
>=20
> I'm aware that this can cause problem for those who depend on
> features/syntax/whatever which is only found in bison'1'. My vlc
> upgrade went fine with bison2.
>=20
> What is the port manager's plan with bison1/2 ? Should we introduce
> something like a 'USE_BISON_VERSION' (make.conf candidate) to extend
> 'USE_BISON' for ports that can use both versions and also split
> 'USE_BISON' into 'USE_BISON1' and 'USE_BISON2' for those who cannot ?
Last time I tried it everything built with bison 2 on i386 (with some
patches). I need to test it on other arches though - hopefully I'll
get to this in about a month. If all is well then we can just update
it globally.
Kris
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