Re: Having problem building on macOS Mojave

[Andrew Janke]

On 1/10/19 11:09 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
> On 1/10/19 10:43 PM, ThomasScofield wrote:
> > Thanks for the feedback.  Interesting about resizing the graphics window.
> > Yes, that brought a plot into view for me as well.
> >
> > I tried running
> >
> >   octave --gui
> >
> > and, like you experienced in Mojave, opening/closing the Preferences 
> > window
> > seemed to cause no disruption.  I did a plot from the gui interface, and
> > just as with the non-gui version, the figure window displayed nothing 
> > until
> > I resized the window.
> >
> > You're correct, I see that gnuplot is actually installed, must be through
> > dependency.
> >
> > My build logs are at
> >
> >   https://gist.github.com/95d90436391d87bfce30038f03c445d7
>
> Nothing suspicious there as far as I can see. The stuff in doctor.out is 
> just from a non-brewed Tcl/Tk installation, which is fine, and a couple 
> non-linked kegs, which don't look relevant.
>
> I think this might be an Octave issue, and not a problem with how you're 
> building it.
>
> I tested Octave 4.4.0 and 4.4.1 on 10.14.2 Mojave, too. Plots show up 
> fine for me in 4.4.0 and 4.4.1.
>
> Perhaps this is a Qt issue? My 4.4.0 and 4.4.1 were built against Qt 
> 5.11, whereas octave-head-test is building against Qt 5.12. If I find 
> some time I'll put together an "Octave head with Qt 5.11" build and see 
> how that goes.
>
> Andrew

I built an Octave 4.4.0 against Qt 5.12 on macOS 10.14.2 Mojave, and it 
had the same "blank figure" behavior as the head test. It looks like 
this may have been introduced by Qt 5.12.

Cheers,
Andrew