Bison-1.875
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## Bison-1.875

The Bison package contains a parser generator.

    Approximate build time:  0.6 SBU
    Required disk space:     10.6 MB

Bison installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed.

### Installation of Bison

First fix a minor compilation problem that Bison has with some packages, the patch is back-ported from CVS:

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

Now prepare Bison for compilation:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

    make

To test the results, issue: `make check`.

Now install the package:

    make install

### Contents of Bison

Installed programs: bison and yacc

Installed library: liby.a

### Short 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.

liby.a is the Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions. This library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it.

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