[BRLTTY] adding bison+byacc Was:Re:trial with much more options Was:Re: precision regarding brltty 4 doesn't compile: make stops...

Labrador labrad0r at edpnet.be
Sat Jul 4 11:33:41 EDT 2009


On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:31:54PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Labrador, le Sat 04 Jul 2009 16:21:49 +0200, a écrit :
> > > If you could be slightly more patient, that could help. Also, apt-cache
> > > search yacc 
> > 
> > ...doesnt give any pertinent answer but lots of package names:
> 
> It does give pertinent answers.
> 
> > (and as you see lots of them doen't match at all with what we were looking
> > for)
> 
> They do. But you can select a bit more by adding one more grep:
> 
> € apt-cache search yacc | grep -i yacc
> btyacc - Backtracking parser generator based on byacc
> kimwitu - Compiler development tool, complementary to lex and yacc
> perl-byacc - The Berkeley LALR parser generator, Perl version
> bison - A parser generator that is compatible with YACC
> byacc - public domain Berkeley LALR Yacc parser generator
> cl-yacc - parser generator for Common Lisp
> ml-yacc - Parser generator for Standard ML
> python-ply - Lex and Yacc implementation for Python
> python-ply-doc - Lex and Yacc implementation for Python
> 
> How one can miss bison and byacc here?
> 
I count 9 packages; if the package needed is yacc why not calling it yacc ?
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