[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53414] make dist produces different contents when built with --without-qt

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53414>

                 Summary: make dist produces different contents when built
with --without-qt
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Wed 21 Mar 2018 06:30:04 PM PDT
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 4 - Important
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Build Failure
                  Status: Confirmed
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

I was comparing a octave-4.3.0+.tar.xz source tarball with another one built
on a different machine. The contents of the tarballs were different because
one was built on a system with Qt dev packages and one was not. I think we
need to decide if we're ok with requiring Qt development libraries and tools
for building the dist source tarball, and if so, add an error message when
make dist runs similar to 

https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/0480c934fbce/doc/interpreter/module.mk#l301

The latest bunch of files missing from the distribution are the
doc/interpreter/octave_interpreter.q{ch,hc} files, but there are a lot more:

* libgui/*/*.ui
* libgui/graphics/images
* libgui/languages
* libgui/src/icons

Basically a bunch of Qt source files are missing from the distribution if the
original host didn't have Qt dev packages or built with --without-qt.




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