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Chapter 7. Entering Chroot and Building Additional Tools

7.8. Bison-3.6.3

The Bison package contains a parser generator.

Approximate build time: 0.3 SBU
Required disk space: 47 MB

7.8.1. Installation of Bison

Prepare Bison for compilation: 

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bison-3.6.3

The meaning of the new configure option:

--docdir=/usr/share/doc/bison-3.6.3

This tells the build system to install bison documentation into a versioned directory.

Compile the package: 

make

Install the package: 

make install

Details on this package are located in Section 8.29.2, “Contents of Bison.”