bison: The GNU general-purpose parser generator¹

Package available in: [trunk] [8.0] [7.0] [6.0] [2.1]

"Bison" is a general-purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. Once you are proficient with Bison, you may use it to develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages.

Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc grammars ought to work with Bison with no change. Anyone familiar with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble. You need to be fluent in C programming in order to use Bison or to understand this manual.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html

Author: The GNU Project <gnu [at] gnu [dot] org>
Maintainer: Rene Rebe <rene [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 2.3

Remark: Dietlibc compatible.

Download: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ bison-2.3.tar.gz

T2 source: bison.cache
T2 source: bison.conf
T2 source: bison.desc
T2 source: disable-examples.patch

Build time (on reference hardware): 15% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 1.12 MB, 67 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree bash binutils bzip2 coreutils diffutils findutils flex gawk gcc gettext glibc grep linux-header m4 make mktemp net-tools patch sed sysfiles tar util-linux

Installed files (on reference hardware): n.a.

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²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).