[Pkg-octave-devel] building with Qt 5?

[Rafael Laboissière]

I am just curious: is there a Qt 4->5 transition planne in Debian?

Rafael

* Mike Miller <mtmiller at debian.org> [2017-08-08 11:38]:

> Hi,
>
> I've started looking at transitioning Octave from Qt 4 to Qt 5.
>
> I get a successful build running under sbuild, but I often get a SIGABRT 
> or SIGSEGV during the test stage when building in place outside of 
> sbuild.
>
> After installing the debs from sbuild, I get the same SIGABRT sometimes 
> when running octave under xvfb-run manually. Or often a SIGSEGV when 
> running the tests in libinterp/corefcn/graphics.cc-tst under xvfb-run. I 
> don't see any of this with Octave 4.2.1-2 built with Qt 4.
>
> The other known issue I'm aware of is that OpenGL plotting doesn't 
> render under Xwayland with Qt 5 (possibly depending on the graphics 
> adapter), but does seem to continue working with Qt 4.
>
> So maybe we should be conservative for now and stay with Qt 4.
>
> -- 
> mike



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