[webkit-dev] migrating from 2.4.6 to 2.8.1

[Philippe Normand]

Hi Jerry,

Please use webkit-gtk at lists.webkit.org for WebKitGTK topics.

On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 10:43 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I am migrating from 2.4.6 to 2.8.1...
> 
> 
> under 2.4.6 there was a ./configure script - that appears to be gone.
> (Not sure why, thought that was a standard thing).
> 

We moved to CMake for the build.

> 
> So then I searched for building webkit and I found 
> Tools/Scripts/build-webkit
> 
> 
> So I looked in that directory in 2.8.1 and that file is not present.
> 

build-webkit should only be used when building a development version of
WebKitGTK. For releases please use CMake:

cmake -DPORT=GTK -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .

Philippe