From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 22 04:42:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D68F16A420 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:42:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA3343D46 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:42:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3A801A3C20; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:42:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1D58F517D2; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:42:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:42:24 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Paul Eggert Message-ID: <20060122044224.GA81690@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200601131825.SAA21164@sopwith.solgatos.com> <87r772obn8.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <20060120211940.GA43031@xor.obsecurity.org> <87u0bymq7x.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87u0bymq7x.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com, bug-bison@gnu.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: portability fix for bison-1.75 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:42:26 -0000 --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:31:14PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Kris Kennaway writes: >=20 > > Unfortunately there is a lot of software that cannot be used as-is > > with the newer version. This seems to be because the newer versions > > of bison are not backwards-compatible, which is irritating to say the > > least. >=20 > That's news to me. Has anyone filed a bug report about these > irritating backward-compatibility issues to ? I don't know about that, but I reran the build of all of our ~160 ports that use bison-1.75, with bison-2.1 instead. > Possibly the backward-compatibility problems, whatever they were, have > already been fixed. In that case I'd still recommend that people not > use 1.75, as it has some real bugs. Almost all of the ports built, which is a big improvement over the last time this was tried - but there are still two failures: lang/pike70 (ftp://ftp.oav.net/pike/7.0/) security/bro (ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/) Perhaps these are the fault of the software depending on old bison bugs, but until they're both fixed (either by a patch to the software or a fix to bison) we can't switch any of the ports over to bison-2.1, since these two bison versions try to install on top of one another, so users will end up with a random version of bison which may or may not work. Kris --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD0w0wWry0BWjoQKURAp4ZAKDKmM70aTnAIuQxNuLw7TuP03tfUwCg4HXk eux9KdQDbuu3MWHM/JGs+l8= =GuS1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--