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6.31.2. Contents of Bison
Installed programs: bison and yacc
Installed library: liby.a
Installed directory: /usr/share/bison
Short Descriptions
bison Generates, from a series of rules, a program for analyzing the structure of text files; Bison is a replacement for Yacc (Yet Another Compiler Compiler)
yacc A wrapper for bison, meant for programs that still call yacc instead of bison; it calls bison with the -y option
liby The Yacc library containing implementations of Yacc-compatible yyerror and main functions; this library is normally not very useful, but POSIX requires it