On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:37:56AM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote:
> Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:
> > A component necessary for GNU Octave's GUI.
> > How does it look?
> Not sure how packaging Qt packages goes, but I've discovered that
> GNU Octave's GUI only builds with Qt4 support. I've changed the patch to
> adjust this. Should I leave the old patch as is and add a qt4 package
> that inherits from it?

Since Qt 4 is no longer supported upstream, we are trying to remove
users of the qt-4 package so that we can eventually remove the qt-4
package itself.

With that in mind, how about a qscintilla-for-octave package? This
package can inherit from a qscintilla that uses qtbase, and I think it
should be declared privately [using (define) instead of (define-public].

> +         (replace 'configure
> +           (lambda _
> +             (chdir "Qt4Qt5")
> +             (zero? (system* "qmake" "qscintilla.pro"))))

I would change directory in a separate 'chdir' phase.

> +               (substitute* (find-files "." "Makefile")
> +                 (((string-append "INSTALL_ROOT)" qt))
> +                  (string-append "INSTALL_ROOT)" out)))))))))
                     ^
Inconsistent indentation. Also, this phase should return #t, since the
return value of substitute* is unspecified.

> +    (synopsis "Qt5 port of the Scintilla editing component")

Make sure to adjust the Qt name as appropriate :)