Bug #27771 building without bison doesn't actually work
Submitted: 11 Apr 2007 22:58 Modified: 11 Apr 2007 23:06
Reporter: Monty Taylor Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Compiling Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[11 Apr 2007 22:58] Monty Taylor
Description:
If you try to build MySQL on a machine that doesn't have yacc or bison installed, it doens't work. There is code in configure to work around this, but everytime I try to build without yacc, I get an error. So I think somewhere this workaround stopped working, but we didn't notice because who doesn't have yacc or bison installed? 

How to repeat:
get a machine without yacc or bison. Try to build from source

Suggested fix:
Not sure. I'll try to track down a fix.
[11 Apr 2007 23:06] Monty Taylor
This is only a problem when building from bitkeeper without bison. The source tarball produced by make dist works just fine.