[Interest] Building Qt for debugging - libwebcore.a File format not recognized

[Carl L Schumann]

Thanks for your response.

Yes it was odd that webkit was being built even with -nowebkit.

Ultimately, we got a successful build by increasing the memory ulimit and dropping the -nowebkit option, i.e., explicitly bulding webkit.  Wish that the build error had described the issue more usefully.   Would have saved us days of experimentation.

On May 5, 2012, at 2:46 AM, Alexander Semke wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> This resulted in the following error when Makefile.WebKit.QtWebKit tried
>> to build libQtWebKit.so.4.9.0:
> why webkit is tried to be built, if you deactivated this with -no-webkit?
> Strange. What kind of errors do you get if you try to compile the debug 
> version without deactivating webkit?
> 
>>> ../../WebCore/debug/libwebcore.a: could not read symbols: File format
>>> not recognized
>> 
>> libwebcore.a appears to be a valid archive file, but the rules for
>> libQtWebKit.so.4.9.0 appear to want a valid ELF file, i.e., *.so
>> file. 
> An archiv file is just a package of ELF object files. So, a lookup for the 
> symbols should be possible. Does this libwebcore.a really exist on you 
> harddisk?
> 
> Alexander