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&aa-bison-shortdesc;
&aa-bison-dep;
-&c6-bison-inst;
+
+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
+<sect2>
+<title>Installation of Bison</title>
+
+<para>First we use a patch to bison, backported from CVS, which fixes a minor
+compilation problem with some packages:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bison-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
+checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the
+following command will do so (and takes a long time):</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>And install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+</sect2>
</sect1>