Re: Trying to compile Octave on RHEL 7.3

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 11:24:28 -0800, Michael Metts wrote:
> So I downloaded 4.2.1 from the ftp site and built it.  the build was
> clean but when i say ./run-octave get a command window that’s full of
> black dots.  when type, the characters are invisible.  if i press
> enter, the command is executed and appears in the command history pane
> but the command window itself is just a sea of black dots.  if i clear
> it, i can see the cursor to the top but all the dots are just as they
> were.  so close and yet so far.  i’ll run the make tests but i wonder
> if there’s something else i’m missing here.

We should take this to the bug tracker. There have been a handful of bug
reports about the command window being blank, but no definitive
resolution that I know of.

Can you file a bug report at
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=octave

No need to create an account if you don't want to. Please give the
details about the Qt 4 package versions that you gave here, and attach a
screenshot if you can. I don't have a CentOS/RHEL 7 to try to reproduce
on at the moment, but maybe someone else can. If you pass "-cli" to
run-octave, you can use Octave in its original non-GUI form.

-- 
mike