Re: octave build dependency for Fedora

[Michael D. Godfrey]

On 06/11/2013 01:48 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 06/10/2013 08:53 PM, Michael D. Godfrey wrote:
> > I just tried octave devel GUI on Fedora 18 and found that
> > without the package ibus-devel everything complies fine, but
> > at startup a message appears saying: Can not get ibus-...
> >
> > Installing ibus-devel fixes this.
> >
> > Michael
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Input_Bus
> It implements XIM protocol, and has GTK+ and Qt input method modules.
>
> Must you recompile after installing ibus-devel?  Or is this a run-time 
> only problem?  Have you always been running FC 18 and this just 
> started happening because of a changeset in the repository?
Did not recompile. Runtime only.  I had not tried GUI for a while.
> Are you doing anything special when compiling?  I am running fc14 and 
> though there is an ibus-devel, it isn't installed.  Here are the 
> non-header-file contents for that package.
Nothing special.
> /usr/lib64/libibus.so
> /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ibus-1.0.pc
> /usr/share/gir-1.0/IBus-1.0.gir
> /usr/share/vala/vapi/ibus-1.0.vapi
>
> I would guess it is libibus.so that is needed, but I don't see any 
> libibus.so as part of the octave script.  Maybe Qt needs a function 
> inside that library.  If so, perhaps FC should be making the 
> ibus-devel package a dependency for the Qt Toolkit package.
This could be right.
> Dan 
Michael