[webkit-qt] Error building WebKit 2.3

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Saturday 05 January 2013, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> Have had this for a while but only had the time to look into it recently.
> 
> Clean build of webkit 2.3 on Kubuntu 13.04 (KDE 4.10)
> 
> /data/dev/qtwebkit-23/Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.cpp:5
> 41:27: fatal error: LLIntAssembly.h: No such file or directory
> compilation terminated.
> make[3]: *** [obj/release/LowLevelInterpreter.o] Error 1
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/data/dev/qtwebkit-23/WebKitBuild/Release/Source/JavaScriptCore'
> make[2]: *** [sub-Target-pri-make_default-ordered] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/data/dev/qtwebkit-23/WebKitBuild/Release/Source/JavaScriptCore'
> make[1]: *** [sub-Source-JavaScriptCore-JavaScriptCore-pro-make_default-
> ordered] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/dev/qtwebkit-23/WebKitBuild/Release'
> make: *** [incremental] Error 2
> 
> There is no LLIntAssembly.h in the qtwebkit src tree.
> 
> Just to be sure I've done a 'git reset --hard HEAD' and I'm on the
> qtwebkit-2.3 branch.

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