configure does not (properly) check for yacc/bison

[monetdb-team]

Date: 2011-03-07 16:17:07 +0100
From: @drstmane
To: buildtools devs <>
Version: 11.3.1 (Apr2011) [obsolete]

Last updated: 2011-05-31 13:59:26 +0200

Comment 15539

Date: 2011-03-07 16:17:07 +0100
From: @drstmane

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110103 Fedora/3.6.13-1.fc14 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier:

configure does not properly check for yacc/bison, or at least is does not disable SQL which requires yacc/bison for its parser.
Hence, if there is no yacc/bison configure finishes successfully, but compilation of SQL eventually fails.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. choose a system without yacc/bison
2. configure MonetDB Mar2011 sources with sql enabled (default)
3. (try to) compile

Actual Results:

make fails complaining about missing yacc/bison executable

Expected Results:

configure complains about missing yacc/bison and disables sql

Comment 15563

Date: 2011-03-11 14:00:12 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

I didn't realize that there was an open bug when I tried to fix this, otherwise I would have mentioned the bug number in the message.
Changeset http://dev.monetdb.org/hg/MonetDB/rev/da89d88f886d should contain the fix.