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 Bison-&bison-version; Bison <para>The Bison package contains a parser generator.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>&bison-ch6-sbu;</seg> <seg>&bison-ch6-du;</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Bison Prepare Bison for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bison-&bison-version; Compile the package: make To test the results (about 5.5 SBU), issue: make check Fourteen tests fail in the "Diagnostics" section, probably because of missing locales. Install the package: make install Contents of Bison Installed programs Installed library Installed directory bison and yacc liby.a /usr/share/bison 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 -y option yacc liby The Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions; this library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it liby