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From: jimd@dutton4.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where is "bison.simple" ?
Date: 6 Mar 1997 21:06:17 GMT
Organization: Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
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In article <5fmf70$m04@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>,
brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) writes:
>> 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.
Ah ha! Thanks for the pointer. I copied the bison.simple/hairy files to
/usr/share/misc and successfully completed compiling lesstiff-0.77 (sigh).
Now if only there was a Web document that inventoried all of these bits
and pieces (what, where, etc.) ;)