[TS-2252] bison version mis-detected on ubuntu 13.10

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.1.2
• Component/s: Portability
• Assignee: Alan M. Carroll
• Reporter: James Peach
• Created: 25/Sep/13 04:35
• Updated: 05/Dec/13 23:51
• Resolved: 06/Nov/13 22:51

Description

On Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy), the --enable-wccp option mis-detects bison 2.7.12-4996:

checking for bison... bison
checking for flex... flex
checking lex output file root... lex.yy
checking lex library... -lfl
checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
configure: error: Need bison version 2.4.1 or better to enable WCCP (found no version data)
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vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-saucy-64:~/build$ bison --version
bison (GNU Bison) 2.7.12-4996
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