[Interest] Compile problems with Qt 5.9.1 from git

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sat Jul 1 21:34:45 CEST 2017


> On Jul 2, 2017, at 3:55 AM, Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com> wrote:
> 
> On Samstag, 1. Juli 2017 20:41:45 CEST Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>>> On Jul 1, 2017, at 11:39 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at macieira.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On sábado, 1 de julho de 2017 11:35:33 PDT Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>>>> I still wish someone would just make binaries available that include
>>>> QtWebKit and ran on reasonably old OS/hw combinations...
>>> 
>>> Hey Dirk
>>> 
>>> Can you try the 5.212 branch instead of the 5.9.1 released package? It
>>> contains a much updated engine.
>> 
>> 5.212 - that's an odd branch :-)
>> Is that newer than 5.9.1?
>> 
> Yes it is based on a 3 years newer branch of WebKit than the old deprecated 
> QtWebKit branch, the version number is because the version is comparative to 
> WebKitGTK 2.12, and because the version has been decoupled from Qt releases. 
> If we had had the new branch ready in time we never have made a 5.9 branch of 
> qtwebkit let alone 5.9.x source packages, but we got started to late and 2.212 
> only came about around the same time 5.9.0 was released

That sounds great. Oddly, I also need some BLE fixes that went into 5.9.1 (that's
the only reason I'm so eager to switch to 5.9.1 in the first place). But if those are in 
5.212 as well, then I'll switch to that of course.

Thanks!

/D


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