On 15/08/2016 18:26, Balaco Baco wrote:
> I installed bison with a DEB package ready for my distro. It does not
> have the PDF documentation I mentioned. This seems to be the true for
> Debian, Ubuntu and other Debian family distros.
On debian, the package is bison-doc:
$ apt-file list bison-doc
> >>> Now that I have built it, I
> >>> wonder: was the pdf here all the time? (...) It is not. The folder
> >>> /usr/share/doc/bison has no PDF.
> >>
> >> Install it using (with suitable permissions) ‘make install-pdf’ I think
> >> it is.
> >
> > I installed bison with a DEB package ready for
> > Now that I have built it, I
> > wonder: was the pdf here all the time? (...) It is not. The folder
> > /usr/share/doc/bison has no PDF.
>
> Install it using (with suitable permissions) ‘make install-pdf’ I think
> it is.
>
>
I installed bison with a DEB package ready for my distro. It doe
> On 15 Aug 2016, at 01:10, Balaco Baco wrote:
> Now that I have built it, I
> wonder: was the pdf here all the time? (...) It is not. The folder
> /usr/share/doc/bison has no PDF.
Install it using (with suitable permissions) ‘make install-pdf’ I think it is.
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> > ... But I need documentation for
> > version 2.4.1. I could not find a way to get it from GNU pages.
> >
>
> The documentation is included with the source. In bison-x.y.z/doc yo will
> see:
> - bison.texinfo. You can convert it to PDFwith ps2pdf (part of TeX). If
> you
> are
> on Windows (as I
> On 14 Aug 2016, at 19:27, Balaco Baco wrote:
>
> I downloaded the pdf "Bison | The Yacc-compatible Parser Generator, 23
> January 2015, Bison Version 3.0.4" from page
> http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/ . But I need documentation for
> version 2.4.1. I could not find a way to get it fr
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Balaco wrote:
> ... But I need documentation for
> version 2.4.1. I could not find a way to get it from GNU pages.
>
The documentation is included with the source. In bison-x.y.z/doc yo will
see:
- bison.texinfo. You can convert it to PDFwith ps2pdf (part of TeX)
I downloaded the pdf "Bison | The Yacc-compatible Parser Generator, 23
January 2015, Bison Version 3.0.4" from page
http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/ . But I need documentation for
version 2.4.1. I could not find a way to get it from GNU pages.
I found old versions of the software itself,
