perlalien/alien-bison

Find or build bison, the parser generator

Alien::bison

Find or build bison, the parser generator

SYNOPSIS

From a Perl script

use Alien::bison;
use Env qw( @PATH );
unshift @PATH, Alien::bison->bin_dir;
system 'bison', ...;

From alienfile:

use alienfile;

share {
  ..
  requires 'Alien::bison' => 0;
  build [ '%{bison} ...' ];
  ...
};

From Build.PL for Alien::Base::ModuleBuild:

use Alien:Base::ModuleBuild;
my $builder = Module::Build->new(
  ...
  alien_bin_requires => [ 'Alien::bison' ],
  ...
);
$builder->create_build_script;

DESCRIPTION

This package can be used by other CPAN modules that require bison, the GNU Parser generator based on YACC.

HELPERS

bison

%{bison}

Returns the name of the bison command. Usually just bison.

SEE ALSO

• Alien
• Alien::flex

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis [email protected]

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

alien-bison's Issues

windows source build fails looking for help2man

/n/home/ollisg/dev/Alien-bison/Alien-bison-0.17/_alien/build_cXYZ/bison-3.0.4/build-aux/missing: line 81: help2man: command not found
WARNING: 'help2man' is missing on your system.
         You should only need it if you modified a dependency of a man page.
         You may want to install the GNU Help2man package:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/>
make[2]: *** [doc/bison.1] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/n/home/ollisg/dev/Alien-bison/Alien-bison-0.17/_alien/build_cXYZ/bison-3.0.4'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/n/home/ollisg/dev/Alien-bison/Alien-bison-0.17/_alien/build_cXYZ/bison-3.0.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2
external command failed at N:/home/ollisg/perl5/strawberry/x86/5.22.1/lib/perl5/Alien/Build/CommandSequence.pm line 49.
dmake:  Error code 130, while making '_alien\mm\build'

Can fail on makeinfo

if info is installed but not makeinfo looks like it fails. the fedora CI works around this by pre-installing makeinfo.