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authorStephen Shaw <stesh@netsoc.tcd.ie>2012-12-07 14:31:59 +0000
committerStephen Shaw <stesh@netsoc.tcd.ie>2012-12-07 14:31:59 +0000
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Add information about installing dev environment on OS X
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likely already installed. I have no idea how to get these
installed on OS X, you're on your own there.
+ On OS X, these are all included in Apple's command line tools, which
+ can be installed from [Xcode](developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/).
+ However, you may find that you need a newer version of Bison than the one provided
+ by Apple. This can be found in [Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/)
+ or [MacPorts](http://macports.org/).
+
`flex` and `bison` are used to generate the lexer and parser for
jq, and some python scripts generate the UTF8 encoding tables
needed for JSON parsing.