Re: rsvg-convert Required to Build Octave 4

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 00:20:25 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
> On 05/15/2016 11:32 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> > > Also, configure does not check for the presence of rsvg-convert or 
> > > icotool.
> > 
> > Yes, configure does check for both of these programs.
> > 
> 
> There is some disconnect between configure and building octave.  When I did
> a configure with neither of these installed, I believe configure did not
> indicate an error.  But, make failed.
> 
> If it is interesting, I can back out the installation of both programe and
> keep a script of the configure/build.

No, no need.

There are several tools that are needed to build Octave as a developer
from hg that are not needed to build Octave as a user from an official
source release. These tools are not installed by `apt build-dep` because
Ubuntu builds from the source release. Some of these tools are bison,
flex, gperf, icotool, and rsvg-convert.

If configure doesn't find any of these tools it will issue a warning
message saying something like "this tool wasn't found, but it's only a
problem if you're building from hg". It will mark the tool as not found
and continue building, and an error will occur if make needs to run the
tool for any reason.

If you are building from a source release, none of these tools will be
needed and make will succeed.

-- 
mike