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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-06-07 20:16:00 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-06-07 20:16:00 +0000
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diff --git a/chapter06/bison.xml b/chapter06/bison.xml
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--- a/chapter06/bison.xml
+++ b/chapter06/bison.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
%general-entities;
]>
-<sect1 id="ch-system-bison" role="wrap">
+<sect1 id="ch-tools-bison" role="wrap">
<?dbhtml filename="bison.html"?>
<sect1info condition="script">
@@ -16,22 +16,25 @@
<title>Bison-&bison-version;</title>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison">
+ <indexterm zone="ch-tools-bison">
<primary sortas="a-Bison">Bison</primary>
+ <secondary>tools</secondary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
- <para>The Bison package contains a parser generator.</para>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+ href="../chapter08/bison.xml"
+ xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
- <seg>&bison-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&bison-ch6-du;</seg>
+ <seg>&bison-ch5-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&bison-ch5-du;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
@@ -39,103 +42,40 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Bison</title>
-<!--
- <para>First, fix a build problem with the current version:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '9327 s/mv/cp/' Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
--->
<para>Prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bison-&bison-version;</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
+ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bison-&bison-version;</userinput></screen>
-<!-- I could not find a race condidtion in the current version.
- <para>Compile the package, but work around a race condition in the
- current version:</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--docdir=/usr/share/doc/bison-&bison-version;</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This tells the build system to install bison documentation
+ into a versioned directory.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
-<screen><userinput remap="make">make -j1</userinput></screen>-->
+ </variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
- <para>To test the results (about 5.5 SBU), issue:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Fourteen tests fail in the "Diagnostics" section, probably because of
- missing locales.</para>
-
-<!--
- <para>There is a circular dependency between bison and flex with regard to
- the checks. If desired, after installing flex in the next section, the
- bison package can be rebuilt and the bison checks can be run with
- <command>make check</command>.</para>
--->
-
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
- <sect2 id="contents-bison" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Bison</title>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>bison and yacc</seg>
- <seg>liby.a</seg>
- <seg>/usr/share/bison</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
- <varlistentry id="bison">
- <term><command>bison</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Generates, from a series of rules, a program for analyzing the
- structure of text files; Bison is a replacement for Yacc (Yet Another
- Compiler Compiler)</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison bison">
- <primary sortas="b-bison">bison</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="yacc">
- <term><command>yacc</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A wrapper for <command>bison</command>, meant for programs that
- still call <command>yacc</command> instead of <command>bison</command>;
- it calls <command>bison</command> with the <parameter>-y</parameter>
- option</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison yacc">
- <primary sortas="b-yacc">yacc</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="liby">
- <term><filename class="libraryfile">liby</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible
- <function>yyerror</function> and <function>main</function> functions;
- this library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison liby">
- <primary sortas="c-liby">liby</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <sect2 role="content">
+ <title/>
- </variablelist>
+ <para>Details on this package are located in
+ <xref linkend="contents-bison" role="."/></para>
</sect2>