[Development] 4.8 Build failing on Mac OS 10.7 / XCode 4.2

[Alexis Menard]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:08 PM,  <eike.ziller at nokia.com> wrote:
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> On 30 Oct 2011, at 11:08, ext Alexis Menard wrote:
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>> 2011/10/30 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
>>> On Saturday, 29 de October de 2011 09:22:07 Chris Meyer wrote:
>>>> I would like to call attention to the following problem which is that
>>>> the Qt 4.8 build fails using the latest Mac OS 10.7 / Xcode 4.2 tools.
>>
>> For *your* use case. Normal and default cases work as the CI and other
>> reports say.
>>
>>>>
>>>> https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-20619
>>>>
>>>> Somehow the RC 1 candidates are being built... so there must be some
>>>> workaround. Is it possible to post the configure commands,
>>>> environment, and tools used to build the official 4.8 RC's?
>>>>
>>>> Also, I would hope that unilaterally closing a bug that affects a
>>>> primary platform (the Mac is still a primary platform, right?) with a
>>>> 'Won't Fix'  and closing down all discussion on the issue is a trend
>>>> that won't continue.
>>
>> It's a primary platform but an exotic build setup.
>>
>>>
>>> You're over-reacting. That just means he (the assignee) will not fix the bug.
>>> If he had the power to close down all discussion, your email wouldn't exist
>>> and I wouldn't be typing this reply right now.
>>>
>>> Also do note that comments after the bug being closed are still received just
>>> as they were before. You can contribute more information to the report so that
>>> a solution can be found.
>>>
>>>> Zeno Albisser (the one who closed the bug) made some suggestions, but
>>>> since the bug is closed, there is no place for developers to post
>>>> information about what works and what doesn't work. My first thought
>>>> is to turn off debug libs; but I'm guessing other developers have done
>>>> it already so it would be nice if the bug were to remain open so that
>>>> we could all benefit from trial and error until a solution is found.
>>>
>>> Sure there is: the bug report. Comments are not disabled in closed bug
>>> reports. It just means Zeno is no longer looking for a solution. But if you
>>> provide one that works for everyone...
>>
>> Which I believe it is hard to find. I would have close the bug myself.
>> The command line option that the test case passes -arch x86 -arch
>> x86_64 is part of the so called "combination of command lines we can't
>> support". It perhaps worked before but with WebCore growing everyday
>> that was pure luck.
>
> Calling the abitlity to build 32+64bit fat binaries "pure luck" is a bit funny (and feels a bit offensive to me), since we always provided universal 32bit+64bit binary packages for Mac on qt.nokia.com/downloads, up to 4.7.4.

Was not meant to be be offensive. You have to keep in mind that what
ships in 4.7 is at least a good year old WebKit and it is much bigger
now.

>
> Also, universal binaries are quite common on Mac. Btw, even Safari comes in the form of a universal 32+64bit binary (at least on snow leopard) ;)
>
> Anyhow, it looks like the problem is not the combination of "-arch x86 -arch x86_64" but the combination of "-debug_and_release -arch x86 -arch x86_64". Which I think would be acceptable. (I just checked that "-release -arch x86 -arch x86_64" works for me.)

Debug build of WebKit are always problematic as it requires a lot of
RAM to link for example (read at least 8GB), on Linux it may kill the
linker sometimes because it runs out of memory. Debug build of WebKit
are to use only if really needed.

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>> Splitting the build of WebCore into two pieces so
>> that ranlib could work and your test case work is just stupid because
>> it will add complexity for us to support/implement this, and we don't
>> want.  In the other hand if it's that important for you, you can try
>> to have two builds and make a mixture of the library in one of the
>> framework if that's possible.
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Alexis Menard (darktears)
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