source: BOOK/final-system/common/bison.xml@ adb9e34

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<sect1 id="ch-system-bison" role="wrap">
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  <title>Bison-&bison-version;</title>

  <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>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Bison</title>

    <para os="t3">The <command>configure </command>script does not determine
    the correct value for the following. Set the value manually:</para>

<screen os="t4"><userinput>echo "ac_cv_prog_lex_is_flex=yes" &gt; config.cache</userinput></screen>

    <para os="p1">The test suite may fail during the check phase. Apply an upstream fix with the following patch:</para>

<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bison-eof-patch;</userinput></screen>

    <para os="a">Prepare Bison for compilation:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --cache-file=config.cache</userinput></screen>

    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>

    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>bison and yacc</seg>
        <seg>liby.a</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/bison</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <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; Bison is a replacement for Yacc (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 <option>-y</option>
          option</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison yacc">
            <primary sortas="b-yacc">yacc</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <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>

  </sect2>

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