[oe] meta-qt5, master, qtwebkit-examples build failure

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 07:39:34PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:50:17PM -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > Thanks Martin,
> > 
> > On 4 October 2013 10:14, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Just lucky guess, do you have ICU enabled in qtbase?
> > 
> > That was a good guess!
> > 
> > It appears there's very important rule to know when using meta-qt5's
> > master branch (i.e. 5.1.0):
> > - if all you need is qtbase then ICU is not required and therefore not
> > enabled (to save space)
> > - if you need anything on top of qtbase then ICU must be enabled in
> > qtbase's configuration
> > 
> > Do you think this would be a good thing to include in this layer's
> > README (or is it somewhere I should have looked)?
> 
> There are few comments in qtbase.inc where people should look when they
> are changing PACKAGECONFIG, but you're right that it isn't the place
> where most people will look when they get misleading error like this
> one.

FYI, besides the obvious ICU requirement, qtwebkit-examples was not actually 
building any examples for me, so I had to bbappend the recipe w/ a tiny patch:

http://arago-project.org/pipermail/meta-arago/2013-October/002107.html

-- 
Denys


> # separate some parts of PACKAGECONFIG which are often changed
> # be aware that you need to add icu to build qtwebkit, default
> # PACKAGECONFIG is kept rather minimal for people who don't need
> # stuff like webkit (and it's easier to add options than remove)
> 
> # gl or gles needs to be enabled in order to build qtdeclarative
> # http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtdeclarative/commit/e988998a08b1420ed10bd02d9d4b3b8ed2289df9
> PACKAGECONFIG_GL ?= "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'opengl', 'gl',
> '', d)}"
> 
> # accessibility is required to compile qtquickcontrols
> PACKAGECONFIG[accessibility] = "-accessibility,-no-accessibility"
> 
> # gl or gles2 is needed in order to build qtdeclarative
> # (qtdeclarative.do_configure fails to find quick module without)
> PACKAGECONFIG[gl] = "-opengl desktop -no-eglfs,,virtual/libgl"
> 
> # depends on glib
> PACKAGECONFIG[gstreamer] = "-gstreamer,-no-gstreamer,gstreamer"
> 
> # needed for qtdeclarative (qtdeclarative.do_configure fails to find
> # quick module without)
> PACKAGECONFIG[icu] = "-icu,-no-icu,${ICU}"
> 
> I'm thinking about using bb.warn when building qtbase without one of
> them disabled, but again most people won't check qtbase build log when
> they see "no such module qtwebkit" error.
> 
> I'll add at least some note to README file.
> 
> -- 
> Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com



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