Virtual-environments: Add bison

[udzura]

Tool information

• Tool name: bison
• Add or update? Add
• Desired version: any
• Approximate size: -
• If this is an add request:
  
  
  
  • Brief description of tool: Bison is a parser generator like Yacc. Some project requires this ,especially mruby.
  
  
  • URL for tool's homepage: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bison
  
  

Virtual environments affected

• [x] macOS 10.15
• [x] Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• [x] Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• [ ] Windows Server 2016 R2
• [ ] Windows Server 2019

Can this tool be installed during the build?
No, this is usually provided as a OS package.

Are you willing to submit a PR?

y

[senden9]

GLIBC needs bison also.
At the moment I need to do a sudo apt install bison on ubuntu-latest aka 18.04.

[kaylangan]

Looks like this can be installed during your build then? Approximately how much time does that add to your build?

[senden9]

Last build 1m7sec. So it is doable.

[simonsan]

2 min with chocolatey under Win.

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[maxim-lobanov]

Tool can be potentially installed in runtime:

# Ubuntu: takes 8 seconds to install
sudo apt install bison
# macOS: takes 11 seconds to install
brew install bison

[simonsan]

Tool can be potentially installed in runtime:

2 min with chocolatey under Win

🤔

[alepauly]

@udzura We won't be adding this at the moment considering that it's somewhat specialized and we have maintenance concerns. Thanks for the suggestion.