[webkit-qt] Error building WebKit 2.3

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Wed Feb 20 05:42:16 PST 2013


On Wednesday 20 February 2013, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2013, Joshua McClintock wrote:
> > Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde <at> carewolf.com> writes:
> > > Just build the tree again (not clean!). It is sort of fixed in the
> > > staging branch, but the problem seems to be that qmake in Qt5 can
> > > respond positive to an exist() test on files it will generate, while
> > > qmake in Qt 4.8 will only return true when it is already created.
> > > 
> > > `Allan
> > 
> > Hello Allan, I tried running 'make' again and I keep getting the same
> > error.
> > 
> > I'm building on CentOS 6 64bit.  Any suggestions?
> > 
> > http://pastebin.com/b4LeMJnz
> 
> I have gotten the same response from somebody else. It appears to happen
> when builing using WebKit.pro directly.
> 
> A workaround until I tag the next release is to edit
> Source/JavaScriptCore/DerivedSources.pri, and change the line setting
> llint.output to just "llint.output = LLIntAssembly.h" .  It will be wrong
> on Mac, but right everywhere else.
> 
On second thought. It appears building with just WebKit.pro has many other big 
issues, I am being told it is not supported for Qt 4. You need to use the 
build-webkit script.

`Allan


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