%general-entities; ]> Bison-&bison-version; Bison <para>The Bison package contains a parser generator.</para> </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 Installed directories bison, yacc liby.a /usr/share/bison, /usr/share/doc/bison-&bison-version; 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 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