[oe] [meta-qt5][PATCH V2 2/2] qtwebkit: Fix build on armv7ve (rpi)

[Andreas Müller]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:05 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 10:25 PM, Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 9:10 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> v1 -> v2:
>>>> - Drop disabling GI
>>>>
>>>>  recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit_git.bb | 8 ++++++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit_git.bb b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit_git.bb
>>>> index e8c0868..c8e8328 100644
>>>> --- a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit_git.bb
>>>> +++ b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtwebkit_git.bb
>>>> @@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ DEPENDS += "qtbase qtdeclarative icu ruby-native sqlite3 glib-2.0 libxslt gperf-
>>>>  ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv4 = "arm"
>>>>  ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv5 = "arm"
>>>>
>>>> +# https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9474
>>>> +# https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159880
>>>> +# JSC JIT can build on ARMv7 with -marm, but doesn't work on runtime.
>>>> +# Upstream only tests regularly the JSC JIT on ARMv7 with Thumb2 (-mthumb).
>>>> +ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv7a = "thumb"
>>>> +ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv7r = "thumb"
>>>> +ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv7ve = "thumb"
>>>> +
>>>>  # Patches from https://github.com/meta-qt5/qtwebkit/commits/b5.10
>>>>  # 5.10.meta-qt5.1
>>>>  SRC_URI += "\
>>>> --
>>>> 2.16.3
>>>>
>>> I've checked the links you are referring: Both
>>>
>>> * are related to webkit and from 2016
>>> * deal with runtime errors not build errors as referred in patch description.
>>>
>>> So what do you want to fix exactly?
>>>
>> I have looked into this further and found that I stumbled for same
>>
>> commit 511a3764506ce6bbdc5e9441a8f4e9d862ea1102
>> Author: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com>
>> Date:   Mon Jan 4 11:04:16 2016 +0100
>>
>>     qtscript/qtwebkit: disable thumb for armv4 and armv5 only to fix
>> segfault on armv7
>>
>> Curently recipe has
>>
>> ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv4 = "arm"
>> ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET_armv5 = "arm"
>>
>> Isn't thumb default any more?
>>
>
> Thumb-1 doesn't really work since it shows up with register allocation
> errors with gcc.
> thumb2 is fine for armv6+
>
Sorry for causing confusion - what I meant: Isn't thumb2 default for
armv7 anymore (particularly RasPI > 1).  If thumb2 is still default
for armv7 there is no need to add it explicitly here. It does not do
any harm but it is not necessary.

Andreas