Re: Build error on Ubuntu 12.10

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> On 11 March 2013 13:44, Ma Xiaojun <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Can you provide a patch?
>> 
>> No, since I have (yet) limited experience with Autotools and Octave
>> codebase in general.
> 
> Yeah, we all have limited experience. Looks like you correctly figured
> out the problem and diagnosis despite your limited experience.
> 
>> As I checked configure.ac, there is detection for QScintilla,
>> starting from line 2604. However, line 2627-2628 looks like no
>> action except displaying a warning message is taken when QScintilla
>> is not found.
> 
> This warning should be rather prominent at the end of the ./configure
> run. Is it?
> 
>> As I also checked generated config.h, HAVE_QSCINTILLA macro is
>> correctly undefed. However, the file where the build error occurs has
>> no check for such macro. (Currently no idea whether QScintilla can be
>> made optional or not.)
> 
> Without Qscintilla, the GUI editor won't work. Perhaps that could be
> done? The GUI without the editor?
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

Or, just disable building the gui?

Ben