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8 <sect1 id="ch-system-bison" role="wrap">
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11 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>bison</productname>
13 <productnumber>&bison-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&bison-url;</address>
17 <title>Bison-&bison-version;</title>
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison">
20 <primary sortas="a-Bison">Bison</primary>
23 <sect2 role="package">
26 <para>The Bison package contains a parser generator.</para>
29 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
30 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
33 <seg>&bison-ch6-sbu;</seg>
34 <seg>&bison-ch6-du;</seg>
40 <sect2 role="installation">
41 <title>Installation of Bison</title>
42 <!-- bison only installs a static library
43 <para>Inhibit static library installation:</para>
45 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/lib_LIBRARIES =/d' Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
47 <para>Prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
49 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bison-&bison-version;</userinput></screen>
51 <para>Compile the package:</para>
53 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
55 <para>To test the results (about 0.5 SBU), issue:</para>
57 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
59 <para>Install the package:</para>
61 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
65 <sect2 id="contents-bison" role="content">
66 <title>Contents of Bison</title>
69 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
70 <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
71 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
74 <seg>bison and yacc</seg>
76 <seg>/usr/share/bison</seg>
81 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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83 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
85 <varlistentry id="bison">
86 <term><command>bison</command></term>
88 <para>Generates, from a series of rules, a program for analyzing the
89 structure of text files; Bison is a replacement for Yacc (Yet Another
90 Compiler Compiler)</para>
91 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison bison">
92 <primary sortas="b-bison">bison</primary>
97 <varlistentry id="yacc">
98 <term><command>yacc</command></term>
100 <para>A wrapper for <command>bison</command>, meant for programs that
101 still call <command>yacc</command> instead of <command>bison</command>;
102 it calls <command>bison</command> with the <parameter>-y</parameter>
104 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison yacc">
105 <primary sortas="b-yacc">yacc</primary>
110 <varlistentry id="liby">
111 <term><filename class="libraryfile">liby</filename></term>
113 <para>The Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible
114 <function>yyerror</function> and <function>main</function> functions;
115 this library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it</para>
116 <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison liby">
117 <primary sortas="c-liby">liby</primary>