-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 doc/FAQ for frequently asked questions.
+* Installation
+** Build
+See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation
+instructions.
-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:
+Bison requires GNU m4 1.4.6 or later. See:
-ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/bison/m4-1.4.1.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.6.tar.gz
-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.
+** 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.
-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'.
+* 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".
-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 and the documentation does
+not answer them, please send mail to <help-bison@gnu.org>.
-If you have questions about using Bison which the documentation does
-not answer, 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
+test case in each bug report.
+
+
+Local Variables:
+mode: outline
+End:
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