%general-entities; ]> Bison-&bison-version; Bison <para>The Bison package contains a parser generator.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem><seg>0.6 SBU</seg><seg>9.9 MB</seg></seglistitem> </segmentedlist> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle> <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Bison Prepare Bison for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check. Install the package: make install Contents of Bison Installed programs Installed library bison and yaccliby.a Short Descriptions 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) bison yacc a wrapper for bison, meant for programs that still call yacc instead of bison; it calls bison with the -y option yacc liby.a the Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions; this library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it liby.a