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Re: missing:qcollectiongenerator qhelpgenerator


From: Mike Miller
Subject: Re: missing:qcollectiongenerator qhelpgenerator
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:54:36 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.0 (2018-05-17)

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 15:31:18 -0500, Carlos Davila wrote:
> I am trying to install octave (v 4.4.0) from source on Cygwin. After
> installing most dependencies, ./config gives:
> 
> Build Octave Qt GUI:                  no (missing:qcollectiongenerator 
> qhelpgenerator)
> 
> However these appear to have already been installed, from package
> qt4-debuginfo.  The following directories exist:
> 
> /usr/src/debug/qt4-4.8.7-3/tools/assistant/tools/qcollectiongenerator/
> /usr/src/debug/qt4-4.8.7-3/tools/assistant/tools/qhelpconverter/
> 
> Would appreciate any suggestions.

Those directories are either source code or debug symbols only, not the
actual executables. Octave needs the programs to be installed, typically
in /usr/bin or in /usr/lib/qt4/bin. The package name might be something
like qt4-dev-tools, but I don't use Cygwin so I don't know for sure.

If Cygwin offers Qt 5 as an option you might want to use that instead.

-- 
mike

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