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

[Andreas Oberritter]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:04:24 -0400
Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 05:53:21PM -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Andreas Oberritter
> > <obi at opendreambox.org> wrote:  
> > > 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.  
> > 
> > Assuming qtwebkit has a configure option to explicitly enable/disable
> > gold, I'd say add a PACKAGECONFIG option.
> > 
> > In the short term keep the PACKAGECONFIG option disabled and in the
> > longer term (once qtwebkit builds successfully with gold enabled) set
> > the PACKAGECONFIG option based on the testing the distro feature.  
> 
> Has there been any progress on this? Is anybody looking at adding this 
> PACKAGECONFIG flag?
> 

IIRC, setting ld-is-gold globally didn't help. I didn't investigate any further.

Regards,
Andreas