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
