Re: Trying to compile Octave on RHEL 7.3

[Michael Metts]

ha!  awesome.  i’m down to just the Sundials issue now.  so, Mike, should i 
switch to the build you recommended or is it okay (reasonable) to continue with 
the dev build from the hg repo?

> On Mar 2, 2017, at 9:30 AM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 22:54:12 -0800, Michael L. Metts wrote:
>> Oh.  My log made it to you.  It bounced for someone.  I’ll dig some
>> more tomorrow.  As far as I know, I have qt5 and no qt4 – I don’t
>> really know them from a hole in the ground.  Below are rpm checks.
>> Can qt4 and qt5 coexist?  
> 
> Yes, there is no problem with having and using both Qt 4 and 5 on your
> system. The problem is that Octave will prefer Qt 5, but there is no
> qscintilla package built against Qt 5 for your OS, which explains why
> you are getting the results you are.
> 
> I would recommend adding --with-qt=4 to your configure command.
> 
> I can't help with the arpack / atlas situation with EPEL, that seems
> like a packaging bug, but if you can work around it and get it working,
> go for it.
> 
> -- 
> mike