[oe] [meta-qt5] qtwebkit 5.8 build issues?

[Andreas Oberritter]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:38:58 -0700
Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Andreas Oberritter
> <obi at opendreambox.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:06:14 -0400
> > Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> >  
> >> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 04:30:53PM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:  
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I've been having the following build issues lately with qtwebkit 5.8 from
> >> > master:
> >> >
> >> > | make[2]: Entering directory '/OE/master/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.8.0+gitAUTOINC+74ac5b0f34-r0/build/Source'
> >> > | rm -f libQt5WebKit.so.5.8.0 libQt5WebKit.so libQt5WebKit.so.5 libQt5WebKit.so.5.8
> >> > | linking ../lib/libQt5WebKit.so.5.8.0
> >> > | /OE/master/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.8.0+gitAUTOINC+74ac5b0f34-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/libQt5Core.so:(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `__bss_start'
> >> > | /OE/master/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.8.0+gitAUTOINC+74ac5b0f34-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/libQt5Core.so:(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `__bss_start'
> >> > | /OE/master/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.8.0+gitAUTOINC+74ac5b0f34-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/libQt5Core.so:(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `_edata'
> >> > | /OE/master/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.8.0+gitAUTOINC+74ac5b0f34-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/libQt5Core.so:(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `_edata'
> >> > | /OE/master/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.8.0+gitAUTOINC+74ac5b0f34-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/libQt5Core.so:(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `_end'
> >> > | /OE/master/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.8.0+gitAUTOINC+74ac5b0f34-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/libQt5Core.so:(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `_end'
> >> > | /OE/master/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.8.0+gitAUTOINC+74ac5b0f34-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/libQt5Gui.so:(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `__bss_start'
> >> > | /OE/master/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.8.0+gitAUTOINC+74ac5b0f34-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/libQt5Gui.so:(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `_edata'
> >> > | /OE/master/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.8.0+gitAUTOINC+74ac5b0f34-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/lib/libQt5Gui.so:(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `_end'
> >> > | collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> >> > | Makefile.api:92: recipe for target '../lib/libQt5WebKit.so.5.8.0' failed
> >> > | make[2]: *** [../lib/libQt5WebKit.so.5.8.0] Error 1
> >> > | make[2]: Leaving directory '/OE/master/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.8.0+gitAUTOINC+74ac5b0f34-r0/build/Source'
> >> > | Makefile.QtWebKit:44: recipe for target 'sub-api-pri-make_first-ordered' failed
> >> > | make[1]: *** [sub-api-pri-make_first-ordered] Error 2
> >> >
> >> > I believe I was able to build 5.8/master before, so I'm suspecting recent
> >> > binutils upgrade... But I can be wrong. Would really appreciate some help
> >> > here. Thanks.  
> >>
> >> Anyone else see this?
> >>  
> >
> > I do. Have you been able to solve it in the meantime?  
> 
> Do you both have gold enabled?
> 
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtwebkit-opensource-src/+bug/1653529
> 

I don't use the ld-is-gold flag, but gold gets built nevertheless. It's just not
the default linker. I guess qtwebkit forces its use. So the question becomes whether
I should set ld-is-gold or teach qtwebkit not to use gold, in order not to mix both
linkers.

Regards,
Andreas