[Development] Problems with QtWebKit 5.6

[Konstantin Tokarev]

06.03.2016, 21:40, "Dmitry Shachnev" <mitya57.ml at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently packaging Qt 5.6 release candidate for Debian and I have
> encountered some problems with QtWebKit.
>
> 1. Looks like the tarballs were build without calling syncqt. That issue was
>    easy to work-around and we are now calling syncqt before the build. However
>    it would be nice to have the final tarballs built properly.
>
> 2. There is a linking error when building libQt5WebKit.so on some architectures
>    (arm, mipsel and s390x): it reports undefined reference to pthread_*, even
>    though -lpthread is present in the command line.
>
>    I compared it with QtWebKit 5.5.1 build log and noticed that in 5.5.0 log
>    there are 10 occurences of -lpthread in link command, however in 5.6.0 there
>    is only one — though it's early enough (before -lWebKit1 and -lWTF).

This patch should help:

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/150601

>
>    Was there some optimization in qmake that removes duplicate link flags?
>
>    Can it be the reason for this issue? If yes, is there any known workaround?
>
>    The build logs are available at:
>    https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=qtwebkit-opensource-src&suite=experimental
>
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> Dmitry Shachnev
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Regards,
Konstantin