For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Bison-1.875 in Chapter 6.
Bison (1.875):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/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:
bison and yacc
(Last checked against version 1.35.)
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.
(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