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-This directory contains the Bison parser generator.
+This package contains the GNU Bison parser generator.

 
 See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation instructions.
 
 See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation instructions.

-See the file doc/FAQ for frequently asked questions.

 
 

-Bison requires GNU m4 1.4 or later.  Vanilla GNU m4 1.4 has some
-serious bugs, so we recommend using m4 1.4 as patched by the standard
-GNU/Linux distributions.  If you're building GNU m4 1.4 from scratch
-we suggest using this version:
+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".

 
 

-ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.2.tar.gz
+Bison requires GNU m4 1.4.6 or later.  See:

 
 

-Older versions of Sun Forte Developer 6 update 2 have a compiler bug
-that cause "make check" to fail with a "Encounter BINCL entry"
-diagnostic.  To fix the bug, update to the latest set of Solaris and
-Forte patches recommended by Sun.
+ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.6.tar.gz

 
 

-VMS and MS-DOS builds are probably broken right now.  If you are able
-to build Bison on either platform and you need to make changes to do
-so, please submit those changes as a bug report.  On VMS, you will
-probably have to create Makefile from Makefile.in by hand.  Remember
-to do `SET COMMAND BISON' to install the data in `BISON.CLD'.
+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.

 
 

-Send bug reports to <bug-bison@gnu.org>.  Please include the version
-number from `bison --version', and a complete, self-contained test
-case in each bug report.
+Please send bug reports to <bug-bison@gnu.org>.  Please include the
+version number from `bison --version', and a complete, self-contained
+test case in each bug report.

 
 

-If you have questions about using Bison which the documentation does
-not answer, send mail to <help-bison@gnu.org>.
+If you have questions about using Bison and the documentation does
+not answer them, please send mail to <help-bison@gnu.org>.

 
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-Copyright (C) 1992, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1992, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 
 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler.
 
 
 This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler.
 

-Bison is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-any later version.
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.

 
 

-Bison is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

-along with autoconf; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.