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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-bison" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="bison.html"?>
10
11  <title>Bison-&bison-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison">
14    <primary sortas="a-Bison">Bison</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The Bison package contains a parser generator.</para>
21
22  </sect2>
23
24  <sect2 role="installation">
25    <title>Installation of Bison</title>
26
27    <para os="a">Prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
28
29<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
30
31    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
32
33<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
34
35    <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
36    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
37
38    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
39
40<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
41
42  </sect2>
43
44  <sect2 id="contents-bison" role="content">
45    <title>Contents of Bison</title>
46
47    <segmentedlist>
48      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
49      <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
50      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
51
52      <seglistitem>
53        <seg>bison and yacc</seg>
54        <seg>liby.a</seg>
55        <seg>/usr/share/bison</seg>
56      </seglistitem>
57    </segmentedlist>
58
59    <variablelist>
60      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
61      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
62      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
63
64      <varlistentry id="bison">
65        <term><command>bison</command></term>
66        <listitem>
67          <para>Generates, from a series of rules, a program for analyzing
68          the structure of text files; Bison is a replacement for Yacc (Yet
69          Another Compiler Compiler)</para>
70          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison bison">
71            <primary sortas="b-bison">bison</primary>
72          </indexterm>
73        </listitem>
74      </varlistentry>
75
76      <varlistentry id="yacc">
77        <term><command>yacc</command></term>
78        <listitem>
79          <para>A wrapper for <command>bison</command>, meant for programs that
80          still call <command>yacc</command> instead of <command>bison</command>;
81          it calls <command>bison</command> with the <option>-y</option>
82          option</para>
83          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison yacc">
84            <primary sortas="b-yacc">yacc</primary>
85          </indexterm>
86        </listitem>
87      </varlistentry>
88
89      <varlistentry id="liby.a">
90        <term><filename class="libraryfile">liby.a</filename></term>
91        <listitem>
92          <para>The Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible
93          <emphasis>yyerror</emphasis> and <emphasis>main</emphasis> functions;
94          this library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it</para>
95          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison liby.a">
96            <primary sortas="c-liby.a">liby.a</primary>
97          </indexterm>
98        </listitem>
99      </varlistentry>
100
101    </variablelist>
102
103  </sect2>
104
105</sect1>
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