Re: octave build dependency for Fedora

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 06/11/2013 06:20 AM, Michael D. Godfrey wrote:
> 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.

What's the Octave policy on conditioning on things not need for 
compilation?  I would guess "not a concern" as there are some 
documentation items that don't work without the required utility.


> > 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.

I searched for this issue in FC's bugzilla.  There are plenty of ibus 
issues, but nothing specifically like what you've noted.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/query.cgi?format=specific

I did see one bug report a few years old complaining about libibus.so 
being in both ibus-libs and ibus-devel:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498541

If you feel up to it, you could submit a bug report on FC's bugzilla 
with a detailed run-time error message.  The question is whether Qt 
Toolkit (qt-) should have a ibus-devel dependency.  Or maybe it is 
qt-devel- that should have a ibus-devel dependency since we are using 
qt-devel- after all when building Octave.

Dan