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GNU Bison broken on Mac OS X

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GNU Bison, the parser generator (frequently useful for building parsing trees according to a free context grammar) , shipped with Mac OS X is ancient and broken.

Here are quick instructions on how to install the latest version (2.1):

Download from here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-2.1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf bison-2.1.tar.gz
cd bison-2.1
./configure –prefix=/usr/local
make
make check
sudo make instal


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