Bug #77529 MySQL 5.1 doesn't build with Bison 3.0

Description:
sql_yacc.yy is incompatible with Bison 3.0

This has been fixed in Maria since ~2013 but affects MySQL 5.1.73

How to repeat:
Build MySQL 5.1 on remotely modern Linux distro

Suggested fix:
Patch coming.

Hello Stewart,

Thank you for the bug report.
I'm not seeing this issue at my end on CentOS 5.3.
Could you please provide exact configure/build commands used, and OS details?

Regards,
Umesh

CentOS 5.3 - MySQL 5.1.73 Build log..

Attachment: 77529.results (application/octet-stream, text), 1.07 MiB.

Used Ubuntu Vivid (15.04), which has a more recent version of Bison than CentOS 5.3 is likely to have. I was also building from git rather than source tarball.

Affects any configuration option, as you always end up building the parser.

Thank you for the feedback.
Observed issue on Ubuntu Vivid 15.04:

sql_yacc.cc: In function ‘int MYSQLparse()’:
sql_yacc.cc:14842:30: error: too few arguments to function ‘int MYSQLlex(void*, void*)’
       yychar = yylex (&yylval);

.
.
sql_yacc.yy:13795:23: note: in expansion of macro ‘Lex’
             LEX *lex= Lex;
                       ^
Makefile:1123: recipe for target 'sql_yacc.o' failed
make[3]: *** [sql_yacc.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/ushastry/Downloads/mysql-5.1.73/sql'
Makefile:1194: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ushastry/Downloads/mysql-5.1.73/sql'
Makefile:793: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ushastry/Downloads/mysql-5.1.73/sql'
Makefile:616: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Build log..

Attachment: 5.1.73.buildlog (application/octet-stream, text), 1.79 MiB.

With 5.1 EOL we can probably close this one at this point?

Posted by developer:
 
Closing. 5.1 is obsolete.