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# Bison

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Bison-1.875 in Chapter 6.

## Official Download Location

Bison (1.875):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/

## 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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## Descriptions

(Last checked against version 1.35.)

### Program file 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).

yacc is a wrapper for bison, meant for programs that still call yacc instead of bison. It calls bison with the -y option.

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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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