[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#798427: jessie-backports FTBFS: missing build-dep on bison
Mike Miller
mtmiller at debian.org
Wed Sep 9 10:33:17 UTC 2015
On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 10:40:43 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> when building octave from sid in a jessie chroot in order to do a
> jessie-backport, octave FTBFS within configure that bison is not installed.
Interesting, do you have a build log somewhere? This means that
something must have touched the bison source files, because…
> Would you mind adding a direct build-depends on bison to ease backports?
> Since octave doesn't FTBFS on sid, i presume that bison is pulled
> indirectly, so a direct build-depends wouldn't hurt either.
Rather it's because the bison sources are not regenerated when building
on sid. This might be worth doing something about also.
--
mike
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