installing openscad

[David Strubbe]

Did you look at this part of the instructions?

For example, if you wanted to install the older 8.4.16 version of tcl,
browse to the lang/tcl
<https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/tree/master/lang/tcl> directory
and look at its history
<https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commits/master/lang/tcl>.

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 5:51 PM Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
> 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> wrote:
>>
>> See https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:45 PM Murray Eisenberg <
>> murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The only bison ports I find listed at 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> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ---
>>> 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
>>
>>
>>
> ---
> Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
> 503 King Farm Blvd #101
> Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334
>
>
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