Re: Having problem building on macOS Mojave

[Andrew Janke]

Oops; sent this email to just Ben. Re-sending to entire list.

On 12/23/18 9:29 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> My configure ends with ...
>
> >   Build Octave Qt GUI:                  no (missing:qcollectiongenerator)
> >    JIT compiler for loops:               no
> >    Build Java interface:                 yes
> >    Build static libraries:               no
> >    Build shared libraries:               yes
> >    Dynamic Linking API:                  dlopen
> >    Include support for GNU readline:     yes
> >    64-bit array dims and indexing:       yes
> >    64-bit BLAS array dims and indexing:  no
> >    OpenMP SMP multithreading:            no
> >    Truncate intermediate FP results:     yes
> >    Build cross tools:                    no
> >    Build docs:                           yes
> >
> > configure: WARNING: Your installation of Qt version 5 appears incomplete or 
> > broken in some way.  Fix that or use --with-qt=VER to use another version.
> > configure: WARNING: one or more of the Qt utilities moc, uic, rcc, lrelease, 
> > qcollectiongenerator, and qhelpgenerator not found; disabling Qt GUI
> > configure:
> > configure: NOTE: Libraries or auxiliary programs may be skipped if they are not 
> > found
> > configure: NOTE: OR if they are missing required features on your system.
>
> Notice that the configure script includes the notes below.
>
> —————————
> # Start with Octave to fulfill most dependencies
> brew install octave
> brew uninstall octave
> # Use Sundails27 instead of Sundials
> brew unlink sundials
> brew install sundials27
> # Add qscintilla2
> brew install qscintilla2
> # Use Homebrew's texinfo
> brew install texinfo
> # Use Homebrew's bison
> brew install bison
> —————————
>
> Your sundials warning/errors may be due to not unliking “sundials” and not 
> installing “sundials27”
>
> Regarding Qt,,this dependency is satisfied by “brew install octave”. I get an 
> error installing Octave due to a check for Java 1.6, which is optional for 
> Octave, but homebrew treats it like a requirement.
>
> Above you’ll see my qt is missing:qcollectiongenerator. There looks to be a 
> regression with homebrew’s qt5 (I was able to compile octave an hour ago, but 
> am not able to after updating homebrew and upgrading its ports).
>
> I’m adding Sebastian/Adrew t the cc-list. They each have more expertise with 
> homebrew than I.
>
> Sebastial/Andrew,
>
> Using qt5 from homebrew is resulting in missing:qcollectiongenerator. Do either 
> of you have a solution for that?
>
> Ben

Hi Ben,

Sorry for the slow response here. Holidays.

Homebrew doesn't do much special with its Qt builds; this might be a 
regression in Qt 5.12 itself. I'll look in to it.

Homebrew's Octave formula now checks for Java 1.8, not Java 1.6. Are you 
using an old
formula, maybe? And it's only "recommended", so you can disable it with 
`--without-java`.

A note on building on macOS: if you want to do it all through Homebrew 
so it sets up your paths and environment variables, you can use the 
octave-head-test formula I put together:

brew tap octave-app/octave-app-bases
brew install --HEAD octave-head-test

That will install from the head of the "default" branch, linking up with 
all the necessary Homebrew-installed dependencies. (And this formula 
avoids the lengthy custom builds of Qt etc that Octave.app itself does.)

It does slightly hack mkoctfile to reduce the number of linker flags 
passed. We can disable that if you want.

I'm also getting missing:qcollectiongenerator.

  Build Octave Qt GUI:                  no (missing:qcollectiongenerator)
  JIT compiler for loops:               no
  Build Java interface:                 yes
  Build static libraries:               no


My build on macOS is currently breaking due to a seemingly unrelated 
gnuplot issue.

/bin/sh run-octave --norc --silent --no-history --path 
/private/tmp/octave-head-test-20181225-28908-1yuz1ng/doc/interpreter/ 
--eval "geometryimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'voronoi', 'eps');"
/bin/sh run-octave --norc --silent --no-history --path 
/private/tmp/octave-head-test-20181225-28908-1yuz1ng/doc/interpreter/ 
--eval "geometryimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'triplot', 'eps');"
/bin/sh run-octave --norc --silent --no-history --path 
/private/tmp/octave-head-test-20181225-28908-1yuz1ng/doc/interpreter/ 
--eval "geometryimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'griddata', 'eps');"
/bin/sh run-octave --norc --silent --no-history --path 
/private/tmp/octave-head-test-20181225-28908-1yuz1ng/doc/interpreter/ 
--eval "geometryimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'convhull', 'eps');"
/bin/sh run-octave --norc --silent --no-history --path 
/private/tmp/octave-head-test-20181225-28908-1yuz1ng/doc/interpreter/ 
--eval "geometryimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'delaunay', 'eps');"
/bin/sh run-octave --norc --silent --no-history --path 
/private/tmp/octave-head-test-20181225-28908-1yuz1ng/doc/interpreter/ 
--eval "geometryimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'inpolygon', 'eps');"
/bin/sh run-octave --norc --silent --no-history --path 
/private/tmp/octave-head-test-20181225-28908-1yuz1ng/doc/interpreter/ 
--eval "interpimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'interpft', 'eps');"
error: __gnuplot_get_var__: Can not make FIFO (Function not implemented)
error: __gnuplot_get_var__: Can not make FIFO (Function not implemented)
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/voronoi.eps] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/triplot.eps] Error 1
error: __gnuplot_get_var__: Can not make FIFO (Function not implemented)
error: __gnuplot_get_var__: Can not make FIFO (Function not implemented)
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/griddata.eps] Error 1
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/convhull.eps] Error 1
error: __gnuplot_get_var__: Can not make FIFO (Function not implemented)
error: __gnuplot_get_var__: Can not make FIFO (Function not implemented)
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/delaunay.eps] Error 1
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/inpolygon.eps] Error 1
error: __gnuplot_get_var__: Can not make FIFO (Function not implemented)
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/interpft.eps] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Full build logs: https://gist.github.com/7cd7d50075a86572db9e05ee4e1c7e59

Cheers,
Andrew