Re: Download failure for octave source

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 11/06/2012 09:44 PM, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> 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?

What about "rcc"?  Can you find moc-qt4, moc-qt5?  If you are using a 
common bundle, search in the package list for something closely related 
to Qt, like Qt development, etc.  I think a fairly recent Qt is needed, 
certainly greater than Qt 4.0.  You shouldn't need to hack configure.in. 
 Why the configure script can't find moc, I'm not sure.  I'm thinking 
that /usr/lib/qt4/bin might not typically be in the search path for 
binaries, but perhaps if you install a development version of Qt those 
paths will be included.

Dan