BOOK/chapter06/bison.xml

   1 <sect1 id="ch-system-bison" xreflabel="Bison">
   2 <title>Installing Bison-&bison-version;</title>
   3 <?dbhtml filename="bison.html" dir="chapter06"?>
   4
   5 <para>The Bison package contains a parser generator.</para>
   6
   7 <screen>&buildtime; &bison-time;
   8 &diskspace; &bison-compsize;</screen>
   9
  10 &aa-bison-down;
  11 &aa-bison-dep;
  12
  13 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  14
  15 <sect2>
  16 <title>Installation of Bison</title>
  17
  18 <para>First fix a minor compilation problem that Bison has with some packages,
  19 the patch is backported from CVS:</para>
  20
  21 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bison-patch;</userinput></screen>
  22
  23 <para>Now prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
  24
  25 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  26
  27 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  28
  29 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  30
  31 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
  32 checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the
  33 following command will do so (and takes a long time):</para>
  34
  35 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
  36
  37 <para>And install the package:</para>
  38
  39 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  40
  41 </sect2>
  42
  43 &aa-bison-shortdesc;
  44 &aa-bison-desc;
  45
  46 </sect1>
  47