Re: GUI no longer building by default

[Torsten]

On 16.03.2013 06:48, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 3/16/2013 6:30 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>> Rik,
>>
>> I see you've made some changes with checking for GUI utilities:
>>
>> 3 days ago     Rik     build: Use AMCOND to build GUI editor if
>> Qscintilla available.
>> 3 days ago     Rik     build: Add more #ifdefs to build GUI when
>> Qscintilla is not present.
>>
>> I'm now getting the following:
>>
>> configure:65665: checking for moc-qt5
>> configure:65695: result: no
>> configure:65665: checking for moc-qt4
>> configure:65681: found /usr/bin/moc-qt4
>> configure:65692: result: moc-qt4
>> configure:65707: checking for uic-qt5
>> configure:65737: result: no
>> configure:65707: checking for uic-qt4
>> configure:65723: found /usr/bin/uic-qt4
>> configure:65734: result: uic-qt4
>> configure:65749: checking for rcc
>> configure:65765: found /usr/bin/rcc
>> configure:65776: result: rcc
>> configure:65791: checking for lrelease
>> configure:65821: result: no
>> configure:65834: WARNING: Qt utility programs moc, uic, rcc, and
>> lrelease not found -- disabling GUI
>>
>> It would seem that the new thing, which isn't being found, is a
>> definition (i.e., utility) for lrelease.  Is this lrelease something
>> that is needed?  Is it simply a consequence of the AMCOND test?
>>
>> On my system is lrelease-qt4, so I'm able to configure and build the GUI
>> using:
>>
>> [.]# ../octave/configure LRELEASE=lrelease-qt4
>>
>> Should that name be added to the list of alternatives in configure?
>> I.e., the following
>>
>>      for ac_prog in lrelease
>>
>> becomes
>>
>>      for ac_prog in lrelease-qt5 lrelease-qt4 lrelease
>>
>> similar to the following existing loop inside the configure script
>>
>>      for ac_prog in moc-qt5 moc-qt4 moc
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Dan
> 
> same problem on cygwin libQtCore4-devel
> 
> usr/bin/lconvert -> ../lib/qt4/bin/lconvert.exe
> usr/bin/lrelease-qt4 -> ../lib/qt4/bin/lrelease.exe
> usr/bin/lupdate-qt4 -> ../lib/qt4/bin/lupdate.exe
> usr/bin/moc-qt4 -> ../lib/qt4/bin/moc.exe
> usr/bin/rcc -> ../lib/qt4/bin/rcc.exe
> usr/bin/qmake-qt4 -> ../lib/qt4/bin/qmake.exe
> usr/bin/qt3to4 -> ../lib/qt4/bin/qt3to4.exe
> usr/bin/uic-qt4 -> ../lib/qt4/bin/uic.exe

Sorry, this is related to my changeset
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b74c4e967f76
for generating the binary language files during the build.

I will correct this.

Torsten