Re: Terminal in Octave GUI should work again

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 29, 2012, at 9:00 PM, Jacob Dawid wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> today I pushed a fix for the Linux terminal in Octave GUI. Octave now doesn't 
> run in embedded mode anymore and thinks it runs in a terminal. This _only_ 
> works for Linux as of now. Please understand that I don't have/use a Mac, so 
> I can't provide bugfixes for MacOS. If anyone using a Mac could try to make 
> it compile for MacOS and send me a patch, this would be great.
> 
> In order to test it you will need to pull the latest sources for qterminal. 
> Every bug report helps bringing that terminal into a usable state.
> 
> Michael: What about getting the Console2 approach in? Does it already work on 
> Windows?
> 
> Jacob

Jacob,

I'm happy to try to help on MacOS X.

I've set up a second archive to play with.

        hg clone ./octave ./gui
        hg update gui
        cd gui/gui

I don't have qmake-qt4. It is just qmake for me. So I could do ...

        sed -i '' -e 's/qmake-qt4/qmake/'compile.sh
        sed -i '' -e 's/qmake-qt4/qmake/'get-qirc.sh
        sed -i '' -e 's/qmake-qt4/qmake/'get-qterminal.sh

... or, maybe the better solution is what I did below ...

        sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/qmake /usr/local/bin/qmake-qt4

I also modified octave-gui.pro.in and octave-gui.pro.in to replace 
'-L/opt/local-native/lib' with '-L/opt/local/lib'.

Then I tried ...

        ./compile.sh 

Which ended with ...

/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-g++-4.2 -headerpad_max_install_names -o bin/octave-gui 
object-files/lexeroctavegui.o object-files/MainWindow.o 
object-files/WorkspaceView.o object-files/HistoryDockWidget.o 
object-files/FilesDockWidget.o object-files/FileEditorMdiSubWindow.o 
object-files/BrowserWidget.o object-files/ImageViewerMdiSubWindow.o 
object-files/SettingsDialog.o object-files/OctaveGUI.o 
object-files/ResourceManager.o object-files/CommandLineParser.o 
object-files/OctaveCallbackThread.o object-files/OctaveLink.o 
object-files/OctaveMainThread.o object-files/ReadlineAdapter.o 
object-files/WelcomeWizard.o object-files/moc_lexeroctavegui.o 
object-files/moc_MainWindow.o object-files/moc_WorkspaceView.o 
object-files/moc_HistoryDockWidget.o object-files/moc_FilesDockWidget.o 
object-files/moc_FileEditorMdiSubWindow.o object-files/moc_BrowserWidget.o 
object-files/moc_SettingsDialog.o object-files/moc_OctaveCallbackThread.o 
object-files/moc_OctaveLink.o object-files/moc_OctaveMainThread.o 
object-files/moc_ReadlineAdapter.o object-files/moc_WelcomeWizard.o    
-L/opt/local/lib/octave/3.6.0-rc1 -lqscintilla2 -Lqirc/libqirc -lqirc -lm 
-loctinterp -loctave -lcruft -lutil -Lqterminal/libqterminal -lqterminal 
-L/opt/local/lib -lQtWebKit_debug -lQtGui_debug -lQtNetwork_debug 
-lQtCore_debug 
ld: library not found for -lqterminal

So I did the naively obvious thing ...

        cd qterminal/
        make

cd libqterminal/ && make -f Makefile 
/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-g++-4.2 -c -pipe -g -gdwarf-2 -fPIC -Wall -W 
-DHAVE_POSIX_OPENPT -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED 
-I/opt/local/share/qt4/mkspecs/macx-g++ -I. -I. -I/opt/local/include/QtGui 
-I/opt/local/include/QtCore -I/opt/local/include -o kpty.o kpty.cpp
kpty.cpp: In member function ‘void KPty::login(const char*, const char*)’:
kpty.cpp:448: warning: ‘utmp’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/utmp.h:96)
kpty.cpp:505: error: ‘utmpname’ was not declared in this scope
kpty.cpp:506: error: ‘setutent’ was not declared in this scope
kpty.cpp:507: error: ‘pututline’ was not declared in this scope
kpty.cpp:508: error: ‘endutent’ was not declared in this scope
kpty.cpp:509: error: ‘updwtmp’ was not declared in this scope
kpty.cpp: In member function ‘void KPty::logout()’:
kpty.cpp:544: warning: ‘utmp’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/utmp.h:96)
kpty.cpp:544: warning: ‘utmp’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/utmp.h:96)
kpty.cpp:555: error: ‘utmpname’ was not declared in this scope
kpty.cpp:556: error: ‘setutent’ was not declared in this scope
kpty.cpp:557: error: ‘getutline’ was not declared in this scope
kpty.cpp:574: error: ‘pututline’ was not declared in this scope
kpty.cpp:576: error: ‘endutent’ was not declared in this scope
make[1]: *** [kpty.o] Error 1
make: *** [sub-libqterminal-make_default] Error 2

The include file /usr/include/utmp.h is from Apple.

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/Libc/Libc-763.12/include/utmp.h

I don't know how to proceed from here, any suggestions ? 

Ben