[Pkg-octave-devel] Building octave from git clone fails

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

Building the octave from a freshly cloned repository is failing for 
me, with this error message:

   ../build-aux/missing: 81: ../build-aux/missing: gperf: not found

It is strange, because gperf would be needed only if octave.gperf is more 
recent than oct-gperf.h.  Now, we have:

   gbp clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-octave/octave.git
   cd octave
   $ stat libinterp/parse-tree/*gperf* | grep '\(File\|Change\):'
     File: ‘libinterp/parse-tree/octave.gperf’
   Change: 2016-01-23 14:19:02.862901791 -0200
     File: ‘libinterp/parse-tree/oct-gperf.h’
   Change: 2016-01-23 14:19:02.858901820 -0200

There may be something wrong with my settings.  Do you succeed to build 
the package from Git now?

Rafael