Qt 5 buildability

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Fri Jan 9 09:19:48 UTC 2015


On Friday 09 January 2015 22:14:09 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm not sure about which list is most appropriate for this, so i'm
> > sending it here.
> > It seems that changes from Qt 5.3 to 5.4 have introduced a series of
> > hidden dependencies.
> > 
> > QtWebEngine won't build unless you have nss-devel installed (which it
> > complains about) but it also won't build unless libcap-devel is
> > installed (which it doesn't complain about - you only find out when
> > the compiler bails out on you).
> > 
> > The real big issue here though is none of this is integrated with
> > ./configure, and the failure in QtWebEngine is fatal. Can someone
> > please raise this with the Qt developers and get them to fix their
> > build system please?
> 
> Unfortunately the Qt developers have bigger problems than the above to fix.
> Qt 5.4 as it exists in the 5.4 branch at the moment is unbuildable
> (despite their blocking CI system).

what about disabling the QtWebEngine module for now?

> 
> Please see http://build.kde.org/view/FAILED/job/qt5_master_qt5/168/console
> for why.
> Could someone prod them into fixing their build?
> 
> This means that no KDE project can depend on Qt 5.4 at this time.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
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