[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 112311] autotools build: Automagic dependencies for libxslt and geoclue

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112311





--- Comment #4 from Martin Robinson <mrobinson at webkit.org>  2013-03-13 21:05:54 PST ---
(In reply to comment #3)

> libxslt is easy, fortunately. But it's not only libxslt. I needed to get hold of 12 packages. One after another. Oh, that's the stuff on top, after the update-webkit-libs ran. I added that, and loads of other dependencies, to the optional jhbuild moduleset.
> So it's not necessarily hard, but things do add up.
> I don't actually know why I'm doing this to myself, but I'm confident that it's scary enough for some other people. So again: I believe the shorter the "time to webkit" is, the better.

This makes me sad, since I've spent a lot of time trying to make it easier to build and test WebKit. Did you run Tools/gtk/install-dependencies first? If not, is there somewhere we can put the instructions to make them more prominent? If there were dependencies missing there, do you happen to remember any of them so they can be added to Tools/gtk/install-dependencies?

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