[webkit-qt] updating Qt5 in the future

Osztrogonac Csaba oszi at inf.u-szeged.hu
Tue Nov 6 04:22:52 PST 2012


Hi,

And here is the fix for QtLocation submodule: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,38071

It is unfeasible to try to find working Qt3D, QtLocation and QtSensors hashes
always if we would like to build WebKit trunk with newer Qt5 ... :-/

br,
Ossy

Osztrogonac Csaba írta:
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,38769 will fix building Qt3D,
> but QtLocation build is still broken with the following error:
> 
> ...
> cd nokia/ && ( test -f Makefile || 
> /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt5/Qt-5.0.0-r40-test/bin/qmake 
> /home/oszi/qt5/qtlocation/src/plugins/geoservices/nokia/nokia.pro -o 
> Makefile ) && make -f Makefile
> Project ERROR: PLUGIN_TYPE (plugins/ subdirectory) needs to be defined.
> make[3]: *** [sub-nokia-make_first] Error 3
> ...
> 
> Osztrogonac Csaba írta:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that Qt3D, QtLocation and QtSensors aren't qt5.git 
>> submodules anymore:
>> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt5/commit/41c3f2cb5f633f0e540482ca01b2c2caa2475e57 
>>
>> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-27736
>>
>> Now building WebKit depends on Qt3D, QtLocation and QtSensors too. 
>> Unfortunately
>> the latest Qt3D submodule isn't buildable with qt5.git trunk. And we 
>> can't build
>> QtLocation without Qt3D. Without CI check it will be harder and harder 
>> to find
>> buildable Qt3D, QtLocation, QtSensors hashes.
>>
>> Should we drop building these submodules? If yes, we should skip 
>> geolocation and
>> deviceorientation related tests, because they won't work anymore. 
>> (Fortunately
>> build-webkit disable these features automatically if necessary modules 
>> are missing.)
>>
>> Any suggestions?


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