[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #39600] configure: more precise checks for required Qt features needed

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #39600 (project octave):

Attached is an example error log from "make -k" against Qt 4.2. Here is a
summary list of some of the things that are missing that I've pulled out of
the log file, grouped together by type.

Header files/classes:
* QDirIterator
* QFileInfo
* QFileSystemModel
* QMdiArea
* QMdiSubWindow

Static member types:
* QComboBox::AdjustToMinimumContentsLengthWithIcon
* QDesktopServices::HomeLocation
* QFileDialog::HideNameFilterDetails
* QInputDialog::NoButtons
* QKeySequence::Quit
* QMainWindow::AllowNestedDocks
* QMainWindow::AllowTabbedDocks
* QMainWindow::AnimatedDocks
* QNetworkProxy::HttpProxy
* Qt::BlockingQueuedConnection

Missing member functions or constructors:
* QComboBox::insertSeparator
* QDesktopServices::storageLocation
* QFileInfoList::length
* QGridLayout::setHorizontalSpacing
* QGridLayout::setVerticalSpacing
* QHBoxLayout::setContentsMargins
* QHeaderView::restoreState
* QHeaderView::saveState
* QInputDialog::QInputDialog
* QInputDialog::setOptions
* QStringList::length
* QTabBar::setExpanding
* QTabBar::setMovable
* QTabBar::setTabsClosable
* QTableView::setWordWrap
* QTextBrowser::setOpenLinks
* QVBoxLayout::setContentsMargins

Other missing member functions that I haven't chased to the corresponding base
class yet:
* beginResetModel
* buttonClicked
* endResetModel
* nameFilters
* selectedNameFilter
* setDockOptions
* setNameFilters
* setOption
* setTitleBarWidget
* titleBarWidget

As you can see, quite a lot of functionality that was not present in Qt 4.2,
so I'm not at all suggesting that we should make the GUI completely backwards
compatible. But configure should test for at least some, if not all, of these
classes/functions/types to ensure that it disables the GUI build properly.

(file #28682)
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File name: octave-build-qt-4.2.log        Size:28 KB


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