[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#798427: jessie-backports FTBFS: missing build-dep on bison

[Mike Miller]

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