<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The only bison ports I find listed at <a href="http://ports.macports.org" class="">ports.macports.org</a> are 3.74_0 (which is what I currently have installed). And “port info bison” shows ust that same version.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How do I find an earlier version?<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3 Dec2020, at 5:33 PM, David Strubbe <<a href="mailto:dstrubbe@macports.org" class="">dstrubbe@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:24 PM Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Do I need to uninstall the newer versions of bison? or will the build of openscad automatically use the older one once that has been installed?<br class=""></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can only have one version active at at time, like with any port.</div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I note that other ports I’ve installed, namely, gstreamer1, kdelibs4, p5.28-config-autoconfig, and webkit2-gtk all depend on bision. So will they break if I need to uninstall the newer bison?</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Probably they will not break. But anyway for openscad bison is only used at build time so after installation, you can re-activate the newer version of bison.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3 Dec2020, at 5:09 PM, David Strubbe <<a href="mailto:dstrubbe@macports.org" target="_blank" class="">dstrubbe@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello Murray,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please look at this ticket: <a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61055" target="_blank" class="">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61055</a>. Try the older bison version as listed.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The other ticket is talking about whether software should be updated in MacPorts, which is not offering advice aimed at users.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David</div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:04 PM Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="">How do I follow the recommendation from <a href="http://trac.macports.org/" target="_blank" class="">trac.macports.org</a> ticket #61055 about "updating openscad to a newer version first; maybe upstream has already fixed it", pointng to <a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61056" target="_blank" class="">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61056</a>, when I cannot install openscad in the first place. I'm getting the previously reported error:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">{{{</div><div class="">fatal error: 'parser.tab.h' file not found</div><div class="">}}}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I used the "port livecheck openscad" command to find that the new version is 2019.05, but even the MacPorts openscad-devel version is only 2018.04.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How proceed?</div><div class="">
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