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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-bison" role="wrap">
<?dbhtml filename="bison.html"?>
<sect1info condition="script">
<productname>bison</productname>
<productnumber>&bison-version;</productnumber>
<address>&bison-url;</address>
</sect1info>
<title>Bison-&bison-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-bison">
<primary sortas="a-Bison">Bison</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
<para>The Bison package contains a parser generator.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>&bison-ch6-sbu;</seg>
<seg>&bison-ch6-du;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Bison</title>
<para>Prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
<!--
<para>The configure system causes Bison to be built without support for
internationalization of error messages if a <command>bison</command>
program is not already in $PATH. The following addition will correct
this:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">echo '#define YYENABLE_NLS 1' >> lib/config.h</userinput></screen>
-->
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results (about 0.5 SBU), issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
<para>One test will fail due to not having flex available yet.</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.a">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">liby.a</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.a">
<primary sortas="c-liby.a">liby.a</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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