Re: Compiling octave

[Robert T. Short]

On 11/30/2012 01:30 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 30 November 2012 16:07, Robert T. Short
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Sorry for the trivial question but...  What debian Qt packages are needed to
> > compile octave?
> None for the released version; libqt4-dev and libqscintilla-dev for
> the development version.
>
> The configure script probably could use your patches for better
> diagnosing the lack of QScintilla, if this is indeed the problem.
>
> - Jordi G. H.
Hmmm.  I have both of those installed but no joy.

Looking at the configure script, there are checks for some Qt libraries 
and QScintilla in different places.  I can't figure out exactly what 
they are checking for, so I have no idea what I need to be installing.

I am totally ok with submitting patches if I could figure out this rats 
nest of undocumented code.  And even that I could probably do if I had 
the time to spend countless hours figuring it out.  But fuck it, I 
really don't need the "GUI" anyway and I can and do make the 
contributions I am able to make.

Never mind.  This list has got to where even simple questions bring 
snide comments and sniping.

Bob