<sect2> <title>Installation of Bison</title> <para>Install Bison by running the following commands:</para> <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \</userinput> <userinput> --datadir=/usr/share/bison &&</userinput> <userinput>make &&</userinput> <userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para> <para>Some programs don't know about bison and try to find the yacc program (bison is a (better) alternative for yacc). So to please those few programs out there we'll create a yacc script that calls bison and have it emulate yacc's output file name conventions).</para> <para>Create a new file <filename>/usr/bin/yacc</filename> by running the following:</para> <para><screen><userinput>cat > /usr/bin/yacc << "EOF"</userinput> #!/bin/sh # Begin /usr/bin/yacc /usr/bin/bison -y "$@" # End /usr/bin/yacc <userinput>EOF</userinput> <userinput>chmod 755 /usr/bin/yacc</userinput></screen></para> </sect2>