The Bison package contains a parser generator.
Approximate build time: 0.6 SBU Required disk space: 10.6 MB |
Official download location for Bison (1.875):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/
And for the Bison Attribute Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/bison-1.875-attribute.patch
For its installation Bison depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed.
First fix a minor compilation problem that Bison has with some packages, the patch is backported from CVS:
patch -Np1 -i ../bison-1.875-attribute.patch |
Now prepare Bison for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr |
Compile the package:
make |
This package has a test suite 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 (and takes a long time):
make check |
And install the package:
make install |
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.