bugGNU Octave - Bugs: bug #48234, Detection of Qscintilla libraries

 
 

bug #48234: Detection of Qscintilla libraries

Submitted by:  Guillaume <gyom>
Submitted on:  Wed 15 Jun 2016 04:08:57 PM UTC  
 
Category: Configuration and Build SystemSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Build Failure
Status: InvalidAssigned to: None
Originator Name: GuillaumeOpen/Closed: Closed
Release: devOperating System: GNU/Linux

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Fri 01 Jul 2016 12:07:22 PM UTC, comment #6:

Thanks Mike - I hadn't noticed that bug report.

The configuration failure for Qscintilla is due to -lQtOpenGL. I forced the outcome of the configuration test to be true (ie imposing octave_cv_lib_qscintilla=yes): Octave compilation ran through ok and the editor is back and functional. So, I'm happy now even if libnvidia-glcore.so seems broken on my system.

Guillaume <gyom>
Thu 30 Jun 2016 05:47:14 PM UTC, comment #5:

Guillaume, there is a separate bug about falling back to the system editor if the GUI is built without Qscintilla, that has not yet been addressed by anyone interested (because most people are happy with the built-in editor). See bug #39179.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Thu 30 Jun 2016 05:43:54 PM UTC, comment #4:

While I'm waiting for a new version of the nvidia drivers to fix the issue, I am having problems setting up another editor to use.

I've added an entry in ~/.octaverc:

but I get at startup the following error message:

EDITOR() returns the content of the system variable $EDITOR.

Invoking "edit" at the command line from the desktop does not do anything - it opens the chosen editor when running Octave with --no-gui.

Guillaume <gyom>
Wed 15 Jun 2016 06:13:59 PM UTC, comment #3:

Ok, closing as invalid due to unrelated system library problems.

Fixed the typo here:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/74d60f5e37be

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Wed 15 Jun 2016 04:48:12 PM UTC, comment #2:

Ah, thanks Mike! config.log has:

so it seems that the problem comes from the update of the nvidia driver that also took place today (to version 367.27).

[Aside from this, I still think there is a typo in configure such that it should be:

instead of:
OCTAVE_CONFIGURE_WARNING([warn_qscintilla])

Guillaume <gyom>
Wed 15 Jun 2016 04:24:44 PM UTC, comment #1:

Works for me. Some more details are needed here. The best details would be the snippet from config.log that explains why the test failed to check for qscintilla. Searching for that "checking" string in config.log should get you to the right place.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Wed 15 Jun 2016 04:08:57 PM UTC, original submission:

As of today, Octave compiled without the GUI editor and ./configure now displays:

while libqscintilla-devel and libqscintilla2-11 are installed (2.8.2-2.1.8).

There has been an update of libqt4-devel to version 4.8.6 on my system today so I assume it might be related.

I tried to compile the following:

with:

and it compiles and runs fine.

Looking at configure/configure.ac, I notice that the warning "Qscintilla library not found; disabling built-in Qt GUI editor" is not displayed in my case but it might be due to a typo warn_qscintilla -> warn_qscintilla_editor.

Guillaume <gyom>

 

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