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1This directory contains the Bison parser generator.
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e476c87d 3See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation instructions.
66a69320 4See the file doc/FAQ for frequently asked questions.
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6Bison requires GNU m4 1.4 or later. Vanilla GNU m4 1.4 has some
7serious bugs, so we recommend using m4 1.4 as patched by the standard
8GNU/Linux distributions. If you're building GNU m4 1.4 from scratch
9we suggest using this version:
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69daa921 11ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/bison/m4-1.4.1.tar.gz
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13Older versions of Sun Forte Developer 6 update 2 have a compiler bug
14that cause "make check" to fail with a "Encounter BINCL entry"
15diagnostic. To fix the bug, update to the latest set of Solaris and
16Forte patches recommended by Sun.
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18VMS and MS-DOS builds are probably broken right now. If you are able
19to build Bison on either platform and you need to make changes to do
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20so, please submit those changes as a bug report. On VMS, you will
21probably have to create Makefile from Makefile.in by hand. Remember
22to do `SET COMMAND BISON' to install the data in `BISON.CLD'.
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974075dc 24Send bug reports to <bug-bison@gnu.org>. Please include the version
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25number from `bison --version', and a complete, self-contained test
26case in each bug report.
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28If you have questions about using Bison which the documentation does
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29not answer, send mail to <help-bison@gnu.org>.
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e476c87d 33Copyright (C) 1992, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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35This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler.
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37Bison is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
38it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
39the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
40any later version.
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42Bison is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
43but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
44MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
45GNU General Public License for more details.
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47You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
48along with autoconf; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
49the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
50Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.