[webkit-gtk] Can't build WebKitGTK on Fedora 31

[Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez]

On 05/11/2019 19:31, Eric Williams wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build WebKitGTK from source on Fedora 31, but it looks
> like my gettext version is too new:
> 
> *** error: gettext infrastructure mismatch: using a Makefile.in.in from
> gettext version 0.19 but the autoconf macros are from gettext version 0.20
> 
> This happens when I run WebKit/Tools/Scripts/update-webkitgtk-libs. I'm
> assuming a version has to be bumped in a Makefile somewhere?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 

The usual work-flow for developing WebKitGTK is the following:

1. Install the distro required dependencies for building webkit
$ Tools/gtk/install-dependencies

2. (Optional) Build the third-party libraries.
2.1 Option 1 (with JHbuild): Tools/Scripts/update-webkitgtk-libs
2.2 Option 2 (with flatpak): Tools/Scripts/update-webkitgtk-flatpak

3. Build WebKit.
$ Tools/Scripts/build-webkit --gtk


So, what is failing to you is the second step (with JHBuild).

To understand where it fails I would need to see the complete build log
failure. The one you pasted is not enough to know in which of this
libraries it fails.

In any case, keep in mind that building this third-party libraries is
optional. And that you can also try the flatpak method that perhaps work
better on Fedora 31.

The JHBuild method is what currently the buildbots at build.webkit.org
use and what sets the current standard for the results of the layout tests.

The flatpak method is intended to replace JHBuild in the future.

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