Bug 368986

Summary:	Shouldn't the Julia back-end be an optional back-end ?
Product:	[Applications] cantor	Reporter:	Raymond Wooninck <tittiatcoke>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Ivan Lakhtanov <ivan.lakhtanov>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	alexanderrieder, ivan.lakhtanov
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/cantor/b25211738b84f915335625992826dbfe6b2d860f	Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Raymond Wooninck 2016-09-18 09:21:54 UTC

Recently the Julia back-end was added to Cantor. It is good to see that new back-ends are being developed, but shouldn't this be an optional back-end  ?  At the moment during build, cmake is not even checking to see if Julia is actually installed and the julia development files are quite different from distro to distro. 

Looking at Neon, then it seems that the Julia files are not providing any development files, so that means that cantor can no longer be build as that it simply fails. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build cantor on Neon
2. Build fails as that julia/julia.h can not be found
3.

Comment 1 Filipe Saraiva 2016-09-18 14:04:47 UTC

Hi Raymond, this problem was detected some weeks ago. Currently Ivan, the julia backend developer, is working to fix it. Follow the work to fix it in [1].

[1] https://phabricator.kde.org/D2575

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2016-09-20 23:19:21 UTC

Git commit b25211738b84f915335625992826dbfe6b2d860f by Ivan Lakhtanov.
Committed on 20/09/2016 at 12:43.
Pushed by ivanlakhtanov into branch 'master'.

Fixes for build system and added FindJulia.cmake

Bug: 368986
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2575

A  +55   -0    cmake/FindJulia.cmake
M  +12   -1    src/backends/CMakeLists.txt
M  +1    -1    src/backends/julia/juliaserver/CMakeLists.txt

http://commits.kde.org/cantor/b25211738b84f915335625992826dbfe6b2d860f