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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where is "bison.simple" ?
Date: 6 Mar 1997 13:01:20 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5fl0d2$8mc@saluki-news.it.siu.edu>,
jimd@dutton4.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) writes:
> "man bison" -> FILES
>
> /usr/local/lib/bison.simple simple parser
> /usr/local/lib/bison.hairy complicated parser
>
> These files do not exist, however?
>
> lesstif-0.77 uses bison and looks for
>
> /usr/share/misc/bison.simple
>
> There are no "bison's" in /usr/share/misc, either??
The correct place is in /usr/share/misc - the bison docs
are wrong (lots of man pages are a bit out of step here
as the install for the package isn't smart enough to swap
the man page text with the configured paths).
The originals are in /usr/src/contrib/bison.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !