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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: 7 Mar 1997 15:44:48 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5fnbk9$256@saluki-news.it.siu.edu>,
jimd@dutton4.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) writes:
> In article <5fmf70$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.) ;)
Of course there's always "locate". The most useful program under FreeBSD
bar apropos.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !