In Gentoo, QScintilla for Qt5 has the same library name as its Qt4 variant. --- a/m4/acinclude.m4 +++ b/m4/acinclude.m4 @@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ ;; 5) QT_MODULES="Qt5Core Qt5Gui Qt5Network Qt5OpenGL Qt5PrintSupport" - octave_qscintilla_libnames="qscintilla2-qt5 qt5scintilla2" + octave_qscintilla_libnames=qscintilla2 ;; *) AC_MSG_ERROR([Unrecognized Qt version $qt_version])