Re: Download failure for octave source

[sfeam (Ethan Merritt)]

On Tuesday, 06 November 2012, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:43 PM, sfeam (Ethan Merritt)
> <address@hidden>wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, 06 November 2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > > On 6 November 2012 15:27, Ethan A Merritt <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > > I decided to check out the octave source in order to be more
> > > > informed when trying to comment about issues like support of Qt.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately the git repository at
> > > >   https://code.google.com/p/qterminal/
> > > > does not seem to be functioning.  It sends the contents of ./.git
> > > > and then hangs until timeout.
> > >
> > > Here, just untar this:
> > >
> > >     http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/tmp/qterminal.tar.gz
> >
> > Thanks.
> > That allows the rest (I think) of the hg checkout to complete.
> > However, now I have a problem with autotools.
> > I get this:
> >
> > address@hidden octave]$ autoconf
> > error: you must have libtool 2.2.2 or a more recent version
> > configure.ac:37: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST
> >       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> >       See the Autoconf documentation.
> > configure.ac:51: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> > configure.ac:55: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
> > configure.ac:73: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
> > configure.ac:223: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_NOTICE
> > configure.ac:264: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PREPROC_IFELSE
> > configure.ac:264: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_SOURCE
> > configure.ac:270: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_RESULT
> > configure.ac:619: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CACHE_CHECK
> > configure.ac:646: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_FUNCS
> > configure.ac:710: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_PUSH
> > configure.ac:711: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADER
> > configure.ac:714: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LANG_POP
> > configure.ac:773: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
> > configure.ac:957: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_FT2
> > configure.ac:1897: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_CC_C_O
> > address@hidden octave]$ ./configure
> > configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in
> > build-aux "."/build-aux
> >
> >
> > chauvet [52] libtool --version
> > ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6b
> > chauvet [53] autoconf --version
> > autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
> > chauvet [54] m4 --version
> > m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.14
> >
> > Any hints?
> > Is the octave configure.ac too old to work with current autotools?
> >
> 
> Run ./bootstrap instead.


Got it.  Thanks.
OK, next issue (isn't this fun?)

checking for QT... yes
checking for moc-qt5... no
checking for moc-qt4... no
checking for moc... no
checking for uic-qt5... no
checking for uic-qt4... no
checking for uic... no
checking for rcc... no
configure: error: Qt utility programs moc, uic, and rcc are required to build 
the GUI

I have these in /usr/lib/qt4/bin, and listed in QtCore.pc

chauvet [110] pkg-config --variable=moc_location QtCore
/usr/lib/qt4/bin/moc
chauvet [111] pkg-config --variable=uic_location QtCore
/usr/lib/qt4/bin/uic

I'm sure I can hack configure.in if necessary, but maybe
someone has had to deal with this before?

        Ethan