<div dir="ltr"><div>Lacking instructions on building the stable release I tried to follow the instructions for building from git repo instead (unfortunately not sure how to determine which commit corresponds to a particular release, there appear to be no tags in the git repo).<br><br>So I was just trying to build 'master'.<br><br>When I do the 'updage libs' step, I get this:<br><br>kdvolder@lebun:~/git/WebKit$ Tools/Scripts/update-webkitgtk-libs<br>Updating GTK+ port dependencies using jhbuild...<br>Fetching origin<br>HEAD is now at c0cb461... Updated Spanish translation<br>WARNING: gnome-autogen.sh not available (usually part of package 'gnome-common')<br>WARNING: yelp-tools not available (usually part of package 'yelp-tools')<br>Configuring jhbuild without autotools<br>Now type `make' to compile jhbuild<br>make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kdvolder/commandline-dev/WebKit/WebKitBuild/DependenciesGTK/Source/jhbuild/po'<br>msgfmt -o ca.mo ca.po<br>make[1]: msgfmt: Command not found<br>make[1]: *** [ca.mo] Error 127<br>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kdvolder/commandline-dev/WebKit/WebKitBuild/DependenciesGTK/Source/jhbuild/po'<br>make: *** [install] Error 2<br>Traceback (most recent call last):<br> File "./jhbuild-wrapper", line 122, in <module><br> ensure_jhbuild(platform)<br> File "./jhbuild-wrapper", line 115, in ensure_jhbuild<br> install_jhbuild()<br> File "./jhbuild-wrapper", line 105, in install_jhbuild<br> raise Exception('jhbuild configure failed with return code: %i' % process.returncode)<br>Exception: jhbuild configure failed with return code: 2<br>Running jhbuild-wrapper build failed.<br>Died at Tools/Scripts/update-webkitgtk-libs line 24.<br><br></div>Any ideas what's going wrong?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Kris De Volder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kdevolder@pivotal.io" target="_blank">kdevolder@pivotal.io</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I am following up on a bugreport here:<br><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=454798" target="_blank">https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=454798</a><br><br></div>They want me to try a newer version of libwebkitgtk. I found some instructions on building it here:<br><a href="http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingGtk" target="_blank">http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingGtk</a><br><br></div>But right at the top it says: <br><strong><br>"These instructions are meant for use with the source code
repository and are generally not suitable for building a release
tarball.</strong>"<br><br></div>I haven't been able to find instructions for building the latest stable tarbal can someone please point me in the right direction? Or maybe I don't even need to compile from source?<br><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div><br></div>Kris<br><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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