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<sect1 id="ch-system-bison" xreflabel="Bison" role="wrap">
<title>Bison-&bison-version;</title>
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<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>0.6 SBU</seg><seg>10.6 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Bison installation depends on</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Bison</title>
<para>Prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue:
<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
<para>Now install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>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>
<seglistitem><seg>bison and yacc</seg><seg>liby.a</seg></seglistitem>
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<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
<varlistentry id="bison">
<term><command>bison</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-bison bison"><primary sortas="b-bison">bison</primary></indexterm>
<para>generates, from a series of rules, a program
for analyzing the structure of text files. <command>bison</command> is a replacement for <command>yacc</command>
(Yet Another Compiler Compiler).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="yacc">
<term><command>yacc</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-bison yacc"><primary sortas="b-yacc">yacc</primary></indexterm>
<para>is 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>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="liby.a">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">liby.a</filename></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-bison liby.a"><primary sortas="c-liby.a">liby.a</primary></indexterm>
<para>is the Yacc library containing
implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions. This library
is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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