source: clfs-sysroot/BOOK/final-system/common/bison.xml @ 12e6567

Last change on this file since 12e6567 was 12e6567, checked in by Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>, 15 years ago

Added a sysroot wrapper.
Updated the build variables section of the book, each package uses its own.

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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  &env-target;
25
26  <sect2 role="installation">
27    <title>Installation of Bison</title>
28
29    <para os="a">Prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
30
31<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} \
32    --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
33
34    <para os="b1">The configure system causes Bison to be built without support
35    for internationalization of error messages if a <command>bison</command>
36    program is not already in ${PATH}.  The following addition will correct
37    this:</para>
38
39<screen os="b2"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; config.h &lt;&lt; "EOF"
40#define YYENABLE_NLS 1
41EOF</userinput></screen> 
42
43    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
44
45<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
46
47    <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
48
49<screen os="f"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
50
51  </sect2>
52
53  <sect2 id="contents-bison" role="content">
54    <title>Contents of Bison</title>
55
56    <segmentedlist>
57      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
58      <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
59
60      <seglistitem>
61        <seg>bison and yacc</seg>
62        <seg>liby.a</seg>
63      </seglistitem>
64    </segmentedlist>
65
66    <variablelist>
67      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
68      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
69      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
70
71      <varlistentry id="bison">
72        <term><command>bison</command></term>
73        <listitem>
74          <para>Generates, from a series of rules, a program for analyzing
75          the structure of text files; Bison is a replacement for Yacc (Yet
76          Another Compiler Compiler)</para>
77          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison bison">
78            <primary sortas="b-bison">bison</primary>
79          </indexterm>
80        </listitem>
81      </varlistentry>
82
83      <varlistentry id="yacc">
84        <term><command>yacc</command></term>
85        <listitem>
86          <para>A wrapper for <command>bison</command>, meant for programs that
87          still call <command>yacc</command> instead of <command>bison</command>;
88          it calls <command>bison</command> with the <option>-y</option>
89          option</para>
90          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison yacc">
91            <primary sortas="b-yacc">yacc</primary>
92          </indexterm>
93        </listitem>
94      </varlistentry>
95
96      <varlistentry id="liby.a">
97        <term><filename class="libraryfile">liby.a</filename></term>
98        <listitem>
99          <para>The Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible
100          <emphasis>yyerror</emphasis> and <emphasis>main</emphasis> functions;
101          this library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it</para>
102          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison liby.a">
103            <primary sortas="c-liby.a">liby.a</primary>
104          </indexterm>
105        </listitem>
106      </varlistentry>
107
108    </variablelist>
109
110  </sect2>
111
112</sect1>
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