Re: Octave cannot find Qscintilla and cannot build with Atlas

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 08/12/2016 06:52 PM, sas bab wrote:

> 2-The second issue is that octave is building without Qscintilla
> support. I tried different solutions:
>     a- To check weather my Qscintella directory is included in Octave
> search directories.  This is not the problem
>     b- Try to apply the solution in this discussion:
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2015-06/msg00213.html.
>
>          It does not solve the problem
>     c- From "config.log" I found that octave is looking for the
> Qscintella with the wrong file name "libqt5scintilla2.so".
>          However, the correct name in my system is
>          "libqscintilla2-qt5.so". So basically I solved that by applying
> the following command
>
>          sudo cp \use\lib\libqscintilla2-qt5.so
> \usr\lib\libqt5scintilla2.so
>
>          Does it happen with anyone. I think octave should be able to
> get the correct name

This is a known issue Saleh:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40252#comment30

In the past few days there has been a transition to allow building with 
Qt5, and Qt5 has priority because Qt4 appears to soon be nearing the end 
of its support cycle.  You can help by figuring out some way to identify 
the location of Qt5 files on your system at the configuration level. 
For example, can you find anything in package-configuration, e.g., try 
something like the following at the terminal command line:

pkg-config --list-all

and check if "scintilla" appears somewhere in the list.  There probably 
isn't, but it's worth trying.

I created a bug report here, since I don't see any:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?48773

Follow that for latest developments.

Dan