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# Installing Bison-1.875

    Estimated build time:           0.6 SBU
    Estimated required disk space:  6 MB

## Contents of Bison

(Last checked against version 1.35.)

Bison is a parser generator, a replacement for yacc. Bison generates a program that analyzes the structure of a text file.

Bison installs the following:

### Program Files

bison and yacc

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## Bison Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 1.31.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, cp, dirname, echo, expr, head, hostname,
install, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, rmdir, sleep, tr, uname, uniq
Diffutils: cmp
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: install-info

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## Installation of Bison

First we use a patch to bison, backported from CVS, which fixes a minor compilation problem with some packages:

    patch -Np1 -i ../bison-1.875-attribute.patch

Prepare Bison for compilation:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

    make

This package has a testsuite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

    make check

And install the package:

    make install

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