%general-entities; ]> Bison The Bison package contains a parser generator. &buildtime; 0.6 SBU &diskspace; 10.6 MB Bison installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed. First fix a minor compilation problem that Bison has with some packages, the patch is back-ported from CVS: patch -Np1 -i ../bison-&bison-version;-attribute.patch Now prepare Bison for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check. Now install the package: make install Installed programs: bison and yacc Installed library: liby.a bison bison 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). yacc yacc is a wrapper for bison, meant for programs that still call yacc instead of bison. It calls bison with the -y option. liby.a liby.a is the Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions. This library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it.