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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. <!-- bison only installs a static library
  33. <para>Inhibit static library installation:</para>
  34. <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/lib_LIBRARIES =/d' Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
  35. -->
  36. <para>Prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
  37. <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bison-&bison-version;</userinput></screen>
  38. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  39. <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  40. <!--
  41. <para>To test the results (about 2.2 SBU), issue:</para>
  42. <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
  43. -->
  44. <para>There is a circular dependency between bison and flex with regard to
  45. the checks. If desired, after installing flex in the next section, the
  46. bison checks can be run with <command>make check</command>. Three
  47. tests related to lalr1.cc fail for unknown reasons.</para>
  48. <para>Install the package:</para>
  49. <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  50. </sect2>
  51. <sect2 id="contents-bison" role="content">
  52. <title>Contents of Bison</title>
  53. <segmentedlist>
  54. <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  55. <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
  56. <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
  57. <seglistitem>
  58. <seg>bison and yacc</seg>
  59. <seg>liby.a</seg>
  60. <seg>/usr/share/bison</seg>
  61. </seglistitem>
  62. </segmentedlist>
  63. <variablelist>
  64. <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  65. <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  66. <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  67. <varlistentry id="bison">
  68. <term><command>bison</command></term>
  69. <listitem>
  70. <para>Generates, from a series of rules, a program for analyzing the
  71. structure of text files; Bison is a replacement for Yacc (Yet Another
  72. Compiler Compiler)</para>
  73. <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison bison">
  74. <primary sortas="b-bison">bison</primary>
  75. </indexterm>
  76. </listitem>
  77. </varlistentry>
  78. <varlistentry id="yacc">
  79. <term><command>yacc</command></term>
  80. <listitem>
  81. <para>A wrapper for <command>bison</command>, meant for programs that
  82. still call <command>yacc</command> instead of <command>bison</command>;
  83. it calls <command>bison</command> with the <parameter>-y</parameter>
  84. option</para>
  85. <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison yacc">
  86. <primary sortas="b-yacc">yacc</primary>
  87. </indexterm>
  88. </listitem>
  89. </varlistentry>
  90. <varlistentry id="liby">
  91. <term><filename class="libraryfile">liby</filename></term>
  92. <listitem>
  93. <para>The Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible
  94. <function>yyerror</function> and <function>main</function> functions;
  95. this library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it</para>
  96. <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison liby">
  97. <primary sortas="c-liby">liby</primary>
  98. </indexterm>
  99. </listitem>
  100. </varlistentry>
  101. </variablelist>
  102. </sect2>
  103. </sect1>