NAME

Alien::bison - Find or build bison, the parser generator

VERSION

version 0.22

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.

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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