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  6. ]>
  7. <sect1 id="ch-system-bison" role="wrap">
  8. <?dbhtml filename="bison.html"?>
  9. <title>Bison-&bison-version;</title>
  10. <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison">
  11. <primary sortas="a-Bison">Bison</primary>
  12. </indexterm>
  13. <sect2 role="package">
  14. <title/>
  15. <para>The Bison package contains a parser generator.</para>
  16. <segmentedlist>
  17. <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  18. <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  19. <seglistitem>
  20. <seg>&bison-ch6-sbu;</seg>
  21. <seg>&bison-ch6-du;</seg>
  22. </seglistitem>
  23. </segmentedlist>
  24. </sect2>
  25. <sect2 role="installation">
  26. <title>Installation of Bison</title>
  27. <para>Prepare Bison for compilation:</para>
  28. <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  29. <para>The configure system causes bison to be built without support for
  30. internationalization of error messages if a <command>bison</command>
  31. program is not already in $PATH. The following addition will correct
  32. this:</para>
  33. <screen><userinput>echo '#define YYENABLE_NLS 1' &gt;&gt; config.h</userinput></screen>
  34. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  35. <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  36. <para>To test the results, issue:
  37. <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
  38. <para>Install the package:</para>
  39. <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  40. </sect2>
  41. <sect2 id="contents-bison" role="content">
  42. <title>Contents of Bison</title>
  43. <segmentedlist>
  44. <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  45. <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
  46. <seglistitem>
  47. <seg>bison and yacc</seg>
  48. <seg>liby.a</seg>
  49. </seglistitem>
  50. </segmentedlist>
  51. <variablelist>
  52. <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  53. <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  54. <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  55. <varlistentry id="bison">
  56. <term><command>bison</command></term>
  57. <listitem>
  58. <para>Generates, from a series of rules, a program for analyzing the
  59. structure of text files; Bison is a replacement for Yacc (Yet Another
  60. Compiler Compiler)</para>
  61. <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison bison">
  62. <primary sortas="b-bison">bison</primary>
  63. </indexterm>
  64. </listitem>
  65. </varlistentry>
  66. <varlistentry id="yacc">
  67. <term><command>yacc</command></term>
  68. <listitem>
  69. <para>A wrapper for <command>bison</command>, meant for programs that
  70. still call <command>yacc</command> instead of <command>bison</command>;
  71. it calls <command>bison</command> with the <parameter>-y</parameter>
  72. option</para>
  73. <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison yacc">
  74. <primary sortas="b-yacc">yacc</primary>
  75. </indexterm>
  76. </listitem>
  77. </varlistentry>
  78. <varlistentry id="liby.a">
  79. <term><filename class="libraryfile">liby.a</filename></term>
  80. <listitem>
  81. <para>The Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible
  82. <function>yyerror</function> and <function>main</function> functions;
  83. this library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it</para>
  84. <indexterm zone="ch-system-bison liby.a">
  85. <primary sortas="c-liby.a">liby.a</primary>
  86. </indexterm>
  87. </listitem>
  88. </varlistentry>
  89. </variablelist>
  90. </sect2>
  91. </sect1>