[Pkg-octave-devel] building with Qt 5?
Rafael Laboissière
rafael at debian.org
Wed Aug 9 08:39:09 UTC 2017
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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