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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. <sect1 id="ch-system-bison" role="wrap">
  8. <?dbhtml filename="bison.html"?>
  9. <sect1info condition="script">
  10. <productname>bison</productname>
  11. <productnumber>&bison-version;</productnumber>
  12. <address>&bison-url;</address>
  13. </sect1info>
  14. <title>Bison-&bison-version;</title>
  15. <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison">
  16. <primary sortas="a-Bison">Bison</primary>
  17. </indexterm>
  18. <sect2 role="package">
  19. <title/>
  20. <para>The Bison package contains a parser generator.</para>
  21. <segmentedlist>
  22. <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  23. <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  24. <seglistitem>
  25. <seg>&bison-ch6-sbu;</seg>
  26. <seg>&bison-ch6-du;</seg>
  27. </seglistitem>
  28. </segmentedlist>
  29. </sect2>
  30. <sect2 role="installation">
  31. <title>Installation of Bison</title>
  32. <para>Prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
  33. <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  34. <para>The configure system causes Bison to be built without support for
  35. 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. <screen><userinput remap="configure">echo '#define YYENABLE_NLS 1' &gt;&gt; lib/config.h</userinput></screen>
  39. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  40. <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  41. <para>To test the results (about 0.5 SBU), issue:</para>
  42. <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
  43. <para>Install the package:</para>
  44. <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  45. </sect2>
  46. <sect2 id="contents-bison" role="content">
  47. <title>Contents of Bison</title>
  48. <segmentedlist>
  49. <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  50. <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
  51. <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
  52. <seglistitem>
  53. <seg>bison and yacc</seg>
  54. <seg>liby.a</seg>
  55. <seg>/usr/share/bison</seg>
  56. </seglistitem>
  57. </segmentedlist>
  58. <variablelist>
  59. <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  60. <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  61. <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  62. <varlistentry id="bison">
  63. <term><command>bison</command></term>
  64. <listitem>
  65. <para>Generates, from a series of rules, a program for analyzing the
  66. structure of text files; Bison is a replacement for Yacc (Yet Another
  67. Compiler Compiler)</para>
  68. <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison bison">
  69. <primary sortas="b-bison">bison</primary>
  70. </indexterm>
  71. </listitem>
  72. </varlistentry>
  73. <varlistentry id="yacc">
  74. <term><command>yacc</command></term>
  75. <listitem>
  76. <para>A wrapper for <command>bison</command>, meant for programs that
  77. still call <command>yacc</command> instead of <command>bison</command>;
  78. it calls <command>bison</command> with the <parameter>-y</parameter>
  79. option</para>
  80. <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison yacc">
  81. <primary sortas="b-yacc">yacc</primary>
  82. </indexterm>
  83. </listitem>
  84. </varlistentry>
  85. <varlistentry id="liby.a">
  86. <term><filename class="libraryfile">liby.a</filename></term>
  87. <listitem>
  88. <para>The Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible
  89. <function>yyerror</function> and <function>main</function> functions;
  90. this library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it</para>
  91. <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison liby.a">
  92. <primary sortas="c-liby.a">liby.a</primary>
  93. </indexterm>
  94. </listitem>
  95. </varlistentry>
  96. </variablelist>
  97. </sect2>
  98. </sect1>