Re: [stable build from source] Ubuntu 20.04 scintilla

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 2:27 PM Juan Pablo Carbajal <[email protected]>
wrote:

> > Qscintilla isn't necessary to build Octave.  If it isn't found you may
> have reduced functionality in the GUI's code editor, but it won't stop the
> build process.
> >
> >
> > Since you are on a Debian system, you could try
> >
> > apt-get build-dep octave
> >
> > which will pull in all the packages you need to build Octave.
> >
> > However, if the problem is that the upgrade process has broken packages,
> but they are still listed as installed, then this won't work because the
> root problem is not missing packages, but broken ones.
> >
> > If another poster is correct, that you need to re-install packages, then
> you could re-install your entire system with
> >
> > dpkg -l | perl -ane 'print $F[1]," "' > pkg.list
> > apt-get --reinstall install `cat pkg.list`
> >
> > --Rik
>
> As I mentioned in a previous post, the build process fails if I just keep
> going.
> Thanks for the suggestion Rik, however I do not think re-installing
> the whole system is the way to go, and I do not think such
> recommendations should be given lightly.
> I compile many other programs and only Octave is somehow failing to
> detect qscintilla. I read there were some changes in the compilation
> flags, could this be the issue?
>
>
Just to make sure -- after the upgrade did you get a fresh clone of the
repo? I think at least you may want
to re-run ./bootstrap....

Dmitri.
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