Re-add rkward build to binary factory

Hannah von Reth vonreth at kde.org
Tue Jun 18 12:59:26 BST 2019


Hm, yes qtwebkit is building something here at the moment, which is 
strange as the builds where disabled on qt's side 
https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebkit.git/commit/?id=154b95c308911b04f11a991b5ac792269f89ab7d 
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On 18/06/2019 12:18, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:22:39 +0200
> Hannah von Reth <vonreth at kde.org> wrote:
>> currently we are unable to build QtWebkit with mingw.
>>
>> It should be possible to fix QtWebkit,
>> https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/blob/2cfdf054df2c826d7c61237ee5ac2453b0f3964d/mingw-w64-qtwebkit/PKGBUILD
>> the patches here might help.
> could you give me some details? After re-enabling the build for MinGW,
> qtwebkit just compiled out of the box. It took forever, but did not
> require any patching. Admittedly, I have cheated a tiny bit by building
> with --buildtype Release, as RelWithDebInfo exceeded my (virtual) disk
> space.
>
> I'd like to point of the perhaps the entire reason for the continued
> existence of QtWebKit *is* MinGW, or more precisely the fact that
> QtWebEngine cannot be built with MinGW, and thus is not available as an
> alternative.
>
>> The mingw builds where recently removed after several month of
>> failing.
> And just now our MacOS build has been removed, as well. I know it has
> been failing. *Again* without any change on *our* end.
>
> I'm not directing the following sigh at anyone in particular, as I know
> there isn't the right address for it. It still wants out though:
>
> I'd love to have more time for the project. But I don't. It totally
> sucks to come back from a hiatus after a few months, only to find out
> that there's not just a lack of progress, but the project has been
> broken by external changes, left broken, *and* removed without notice.
> Instead of going anywhere, I'm spending hours just trying to get back
> to the baseline. No fun.
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
>


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