This package contains the GNU Bison parser generator.
-See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation instructions.
+* Installation
+** Build
+See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation
+instructions.
+Bison requires GNU m4 1.4.6 or later. See:
+
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.6.tar.gz
+
+** Internationalization
+Bison supports two catalogues: one for Bison itself (i.e., for the
+maintainer-side parser generation), and one for the generated parsers
+(i.e., for the user-side parser execution). The requirements between
+both differ: bison needs ngettext, the generated parsers do not. To
+simplify the build system, neither are installed if ngettext is not
+supported, even if generated parsers could have been localized. See
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2009-08/msg00006.html for
+more details.
+
+* Questions
See the section FAQ in the documentation (doc/bison.info) for
frequently asked questions. The documentation is also available in
PDF and HTML, provided you have a recent version of Texinfo installed:
run "make pdf" or "make html".
-Bison requires GNU m4 1.4.6 or later. See:
-
-ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.6.tar.gz
-
-Bison can work with pre-1.4.6 distributions of GNU m4 if they are
-sufficiently patched, but if you encounter a bug with an older
-distribution and report a bug we will probably suggest that you
-upgrade to 1.4.6 as the first step in trying to fix it.
+If you have questions about using Bison and the documentation does
+not answer them, please send mail to <help-bison@gnu.org>.
+* Bug reports
Please send bug reports to <bug-bison@gnu.org>. Please include the
-version number from `bison --version', and a complete, self-contained
+version number from 'bison --version', and a complete, self-contained
test case in each bug report.
-If you have questions about using Bison and the documentation does
-not answer them, please send mail to <help-bison@gnu.org>.
+* Copyright statements
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package,
+note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
+
+
+Local Variables:
+mode: outline
+End:
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-Copyright (C) 1992, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008-2009 Free
-Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1992, 1998-1999, 2003-2005, 2008-2013 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler.
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