installing openscad

[Murray Eisenberg]

Those instructions say that if the older versions have been uninstalled — which I did do — then to start by searching in the repositiry — which I did. But I don’t see any History item for that port.

> On 5 Dec2020, at 6:40 PM, David Strubbe <dstrubbe at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Have you tried following the instructions in the link I sent?
> 
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 9:58 AM Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I found macports.macports-ports/devel/bison/Portfile, but I see nowhere to select a History so as to reveal older versions.
> 
>> On 3 Dec2020, at 5:47 PM, David Strubbe <dstrubbe at macports.org <mailto:dstrubbe at macports.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> See https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:45 PM Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> The only bison ports I find listed at ports.macports.org <http://ports.macports.org/> are 3.74_0 (which is what I currently have installed). And “port info bison” shows ust that same version.
>> 
>> How do I find an earlier version?
>> 
>>> On 3 Dec2020, at 5:33 PM, David Strubbe <dstrubbe at macports.org <mailto:dstrubbe at macports.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:24 PM Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto:dstrubbe at macports.org>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello Murray,
>>>> 
>>>> Please look at this ticket: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61055 <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 <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> How do I follow the recommendation from trac.macports.org <http://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 <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?
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>>>> Murray Eisenberg			murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
>>>> 503 King Farm Blvd #101	
>>>> Rockville, MD 20850-6667	Mobile (413)-427-5334
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> Murray Eisenberg			murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
>>> 503 King Farm Blvd #101	
>>> Rockville, MD 20850-6667	Mobile (413)-427-5334
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> ---
>> Murray Eisenberg			murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
>> 503 King Farm Blvd #101	
>> Rockville, MD 20850-6667	Mobile (413)-427-5334
>> 
>> 
> 
> ---
> Murray Eisenberg			murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
> 503 King Farm Blvd #101	
> Rockville, MD 20850-6667	Mobile (413)-427-5334
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Murray Eisenberg			murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
503 King Farm Blvd #101	
Rockville, MD 20850-6667	Mobile (413)-427-5334


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