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Hi folks, now there are some issues with HDF5 latest API, let's await for a patch. We recommend use scilab-bin until this issue will be fixed.

https://gitlab.com/scilab/scilab/-/issues/17230

Hi folks, now there are some issues with HDF5 latest API, let's await for a patch. We recommend use scilab-bin until this issue will be fixed.

https://gitlab.com/scilab/scilab/-/issues/17230

@carlosal1015, thanks for your response. It is fine by me either way. I am not a user of this package. I was just trying to test an AUR dependency of this, that's when I accidentally bumped into the flexdock related build issue here.

Please do as you see fit as per your insight.

I am planning disable java support Any hint: https://github.com/carlosal1015/scilab-pkgbuild

Btw, it seems forcing dependence on jgraphx-jre8 is unnecessary, and the jre8/jdk8 also causes the previously mentioned java-flexdock to fail to build. I had to manually install a newer jdk (java-environent>=11) to build the latter.

There is a newer jgraphx package; I think that is the one that should be used as dependency here.

I don't know why, but this fails to build for me, despite having java-flexdock installed:

checking flexdock... no
configure: error: Could not find or use the Java package/jar flexdock used by Scilab Gui (looking for package org.flexdock.util.Utilities)

@weshouman The config.log file will show you the actual error during ./configure. I think the cause to the error should be apache-lucene 9 is complied with a more recent version of java while this PKGBUILD is still using java 8.

apache-lucene has 2 versions available for download and both would fail the build for Scilab 6.1.1

• Version 9.4.0 breaks the build: issue#16897: Scilab does not build against Lucene 9.4.0

configure: error: Could not find or use the Java package/jar lucene-core used by Lucene (looking for package org.apache.lucene.LucenePackage)

• Version 8.11.2 breaks the build: issue#16896: Scilab does not build against Lucene 8.11.2, however that got fixed recently and the Scilab @ branch 6.1 has that fixed.

However, apache-lucene AUR package is using version 9.4.0 by default which requires:

• Patching apache-lucene to be at version 8.11.2

sed -i "s#9.4.0#8.11.2#g" PKGBUILD
sed -i "s#c1b8944b0a8d14ca30f643baaa53cb38778d869366d365a7b8c85f7619ebbd12#c1b8944b0a8d14ca30f643baaa53cb38778d869366d365a7b8c85f7619ebbd12#g" PKGBUILD

• Patching this repo to contain the fix#21829

--- PKGBUILD    2022-10-18 02:03:07.510159940 +0000
+++ PKGBUILD.latest 2022-10-18 01:52:53.606223616 +0000
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # Contributor : bartus <scilab-aur@bartus.33mail.com>

 pkgname=scilab
-pkgver=6.1.1
+pkgver=6.1
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='A scientific software package for numerical computations.'
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 makedepends=('java-environment=8' 'ant>=1.9.0'
              'ocaml-findlib' 'ocaml-num' 'gcc-fortran'
              'time')
-source=("${url}/download/${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-src.tar.gz"
+source=("https://gitlab.com/scilab/scilab/-/archive/6.1/scilab-6.1.tar.gz"
         "${pkgname}-jogl-2.3.2.patch"
         "${pkgname}-strict-jar.patch"
         "${pkgname}-LD_LIBRARY_PATH.patch"
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
         "libxml.patch"
         "hdf5_18_api.patch"
          )
-sha256sums=('e51347638bd385c276c930785a1f9f079ae7eaa78c62a0eca1dc7e6142434207'
+sha256sums=('178fc38af09a9b07a51db8bd70523d024f3337a82a5817dccf5cf8fd77ce4c8d'
             '7b7b5609ee36b6f8d801eeb3899cd62cc889c2038e0e1616b7640f9b8a0424b0'
             '38aa094951338fa1d267dc6f397552e175213b0f8ba7b35727c178607861f6dd'
             'a39277cb8cfc3d7929c73ce6d707dc24e3df4b8d8f2d587f075efebda79ff4db'
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
             'f781c2919a0c14be5deed3a8b8866addd8de1171a06aacb96ef1e19535d0988e')

 prepare(){
-  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/scilab"

   # https://codereview.scilab.org/#/c/17530/
   patch -p2 < "${srcdir}"/${pkgname}-jogl-2.3.2.patch
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 }

 build() {
-  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/scilab"

   ./configure \
     --prefix=/usr \
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 }

 package(){
-  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/scilab"

   make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
   make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install-data install-html

Note: Unfortunately even building the latest Scilab 6.1 using lucene 8.11.2 failed as mentioned in issue#16898: Building Scilab fails on Arch Linux

Seems like source-code was removed from SciLab page, i had to use the Github repo:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 69e5d00..9606584 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ depends=('suitesparse>=4.4.1' 'arpack' 'fftw' 'eigen'
 makedepends=('java-environment=8' 'ant>=1.9.0'
              'ocaml-findlib' 'ocaml-num' 'gcc-fortran'
              'time')
-source=("${url}/download/${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-src.tar.gz"
+source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/scilab/scilab/archive/refs/tags/6.1.1.tar.gz"
         "${pkgname}-jogl-2.3.2.patch"
         "${pkgname}-strict-jar.patch"
         "${pkgname}-LD_LIBRARY_PATH.patch"
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ source=("${url}/download/${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-src.tar.gz"
         "libxml.patch"
         "hdf5_18_api.patch"
          )
-sha256sums=('e51347638bd385c276c930785a1f9f079ae7eaa78c62a0eca1dc7e6142434207'
+sha256sums=('83555679b7d56df4aedad60678d97794cc5aefcda8b57206899016b5702607a4'
             '7b7b5609ee36b6f8d801eeb3899cd62cc889c2038e0e1616b7640f9b8a0424b0'
             '38aa094951338fa1d267dc6f397552e175213b0f8ba7b35727c178607861f6dd'
             'a39277cb8cfc3d7929c73ce6d707dc24e3df4b8d8f2d587f075efebda79ff4db'
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ sha256sums=('e51347638bd385c276c930785a1f9f079ae7eaa78c62a0eca1dc7e6142434207'
             'f781c2919a0c14be5deed3a8b8866addd8de1171a06aacb96ef1e19535d0988e')

 prepare(){
-  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/scilab"

   # https://codereview.scilab.org/#/c/17530/
   patch -p2 < "${srcdir}"/${pkgname}-jogl-2.3.2.patch
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ prepare(){
 }

 build() {
-  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/scilab"

   ./configure \
     --prefix=/usr \
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ build() {
 }

 package(){
-  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/scilab"

   make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
   make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install-data install-html

However, i got into a build error lol <quote> configure: error: Could not find or use the Java package/jar lucene-core used by Lucene (looking for package org.apache.lucene.LucenePackage) </quote>

If i manage to fix that, i'll mail you