the tests really prefer bash.
--- bison-3.0.4/examples/test.orig Tue Oct 20 10:07:20 2015
+++ bison-3.0.4/examples/test Tue Oct 20 10:07:25 2015
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#! /bin/sh
+#! /bin/bash
# Copyright (C) 2005-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#