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<sect1 id="ch-system-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>

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<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>0.6 SBU</seg><seg>10.6 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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<segtitle>Bison installation depends on</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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<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>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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</sect2>


<sect2 id="contents-bison" role="content"><title>Contents of Bison</title>

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<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>bison and yacc</seg><seg>liby.a</seg></seglistitem>
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<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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<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;  <application>Bison</application> is a
replacement for <application>Yacc</application> (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>
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<varlistentry id="liby.a">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">liby.a</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>the Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible
<emphasis>yyerror</emphasis> and <emphasis>main</emphasis> 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>

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