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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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| 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-bison" xreflabel="Bison">
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| 7 | <title>Bison-&bison-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="bison.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison"><primary sortas="a-Bison">Bison</primary></indexterm>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | <para>The Bison package contains a parser generator.</para>
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <screen>&buildtime; 0.6 SBU
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| 15 | &diskspace; 10.6 MB</screen>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para>Bison installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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| 18 | GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed.</para>
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| 19 |
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect2>
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| 23 | <title>Installation of Bison</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>First fix a minor compilation problem that Bison has with some packages,
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| 26 | the patch is back-ported from CVS:</para>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../bison-&bison-version;-attribute.patch</userinput></screen>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>Now prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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| 39 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <para>Now install the package:</para>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | </sect2>
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| 46 |
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <sect2 id="contents-bison"><title>Contents of Bison</title>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: bison and yacc</para>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <para><emphasis>Installed library</emphasis>: liby.a</para>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | </sect2>
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| 55 |
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison bison"><primary sortas="b-bison">bison</primary></indexterm>
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| 60 | <para id="bison"><command>bison</command> generates, from a series of rules, a program
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| 61 | for analyzing the structure of text files. Bison is a replacement for yacc
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| 62 | (Yet Another Compiler Compiler).</para>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison yacc"><primary sortas="b-yacc">yacc</primary></indexterm>
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| 65 | <para id="yacc"><command>yacc</command> is a wrapper for bison, meant for programs
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| 66 | that still call yacc instead of bison. It calls bison with the -y option.</para>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison liby.a"><primary sortas="c-liby.a">liby.a</primary></indexterm>
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| 69 | <para id="liby.a"><command>liby.a</command> is the Yacc library containing
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| 70 | implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions. This library
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| 71 | is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it.</para>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | </sect2>
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| 77 | </sect1>
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