[Qt4-preview-feedback] 4.5 rc1 results

[Thiago Macieira]

Paul Floyd wrote:
>Looking at the configure file
>
>     solaris-cc*)
>        # Check the compiler version
>        case `${QMAKE_CONF_COMPILER} -V 2>&1 | awk '{print $4}'` in
>            *)
>                canBuildWebKit="no"
>                canBuildQtXmlPatterns="no"
>                ;;
>        esac
>        ;;
>
>That's a poor show considering both could build with Qt 4.4.3.

No, they couldn't. They were enabled because we got feedback that it 
worked, but we never managed to build them in-house.

So we corrected our "mistake". Those modules do not build with CC 5.9 yet 
and never have.

>QtXmlPaterns failed to build with the following error:
>"api/qxmlquery.cpp", line 945: Error, badlinkage:
>setFocusHelper<TInputType>(QXmlQuery*const, const TInputType&) was
>previously declared "extern", not "static".

Fixed for 4.5.1

>I tried fixing that defect, then I got
>
>"../../include/QtXmlPatterns/private/../../../src/xmlpatterns/api/qabstr
>actxmlforwarditerator_p.h", line 69: Error, badtunaryop: The operation
> "! const QString" is illegal.

Also fixed for 4.5.1.

Both patches are present in the Qt snapshots already.

>"../JavaScriptCore/wtf/Vector.h", line 47: Error, usererror: #error
>WTF_ALIGN macros need alignment control..

Fixed, but the changes are extensive. We need more time to review them and 
get them accepted by the WebKit community. So Qt 4.5.1.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) nokia.com
  Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Software
      Sandakerveien 116, NO-0402 Oslo, Norway
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