Re: Bison 2.4.1 released

[Joel E. Denny]

I'm dropping address@hidden and address@hidden  
Please do not send any more Bison bug reports to them.

address@hidden is usually sufficient, but I'll keep the other Bison 
mailing lists now that you've opened the issue there.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

> bison-2.4.1 breaks 'configure' of gstreamer-0.10.21:
> 
> "
> checking for bison... 
> /mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/install/bison-2.4.1/bin/bison
> checking bison version 2.4.1 >= 1.875... Argument "^B^D^A" isn't numeric in 
> numeric lt (<) at - line 1.
> configure: error: no
> ".
> 
> The same piece with bison-2.4:
> 
> "
> checking for bison... /home/sergei/AFSWD/install/bison-2.4/bin/bison
> checking bison version 2.4 >= 1.875... yes
> ".
> 
> Is it because bison-2.4.1 has two dots while bison-2.4 only one ?
> 
> bison-2.3 was also OK WRT gstreamer-0.10.21.

It looks like gstreamer's configure script can't handle version numbers 
with three components.  Please report this problem to the gstreamer 
maintainers.  Thanks.