installing openscad

[David Strubbe]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:24 PM Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>

You can only have one version active at at time, like with any port.


>
> 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?
>

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.

>
> On 3 Dec2020, at 5:09 PM, David Strubbe <dstrubbe at macports.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Murray,
>
> Please look at this ticket: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61055. Try
> the older bison version as listed.
>
> The other ticket is talking about whether software should be updated in
> MacPorts, which is not offering advice aimed at users.
>
> David
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:04 PM Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> How do I follow the recommendation from trac.macports.org ticket #61055
>> about "updating openscad to a newer version first; maybe upstream has
>> already fixed it", pointng to https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61056,
>> when I cannot install openscad in the first place. I'm getting the
>> previously reported error:
>>
>> {{{
>> fatal error: 'parser.tab.h' file not found
>> }}}
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> How proceed?
>> ---
>> Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
>> 503 King Farm Blvd #101
>> Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334
>>
>>
>>
> ---
> Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
> 503 King Farm Blvd #101
> Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334
>
>
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