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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY qtwebengine-major "5.15">
8<!-- URL if there is a public release
9 <!ENTITY qtwebengine-download-http "https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/&qtwebengine-major;/&qtwebengine-version;/submodules/qtwebengine-everywhere-src-&qtwebengine-version;.tar.xz">
10 URL for a prepared git version -->
11 <!ENTITY qtwebengine-download-http "&sources-anduin-http;/qtwebengine/qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;.tar.xz">
12 <!ENTITY qtwebengine-download-ftp " ">
13 <!ENTITY qtwebengine-md5sum "9f430acf599605c762a8098000155045">
14 <!ENTITY qtwebengine-size "307 MB">
15 <!ENTITY qtwebengine-buildsize "5.1 GB (154 MB installed)">
16 <!ENTITY qtwebengine-time "45 SBU (Using parallelism=8)">
17]>
18
19<sect1 id="qtwebengine" xreflabel="qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;">
20 <?dbhtml filename="qtwebengine.html"?>
21
22
23 <title>QtWebEngine-&qtwebengine-version;</title>
24
25 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine">
26 <primary sortas="a-qtwebengine">qtwebengine</primary>
27 </indexterm>
28
29 <sect2 role="package">
30 <title>Introduction to QtWebEngine</title>
31
32 <para>
33 <application>QtWebEngine</application> integrates
34 <application>chromium</application>'s web capabilities into Qt. It
35 ships with its own copy of ninja which it uses for the build if it cannot
36 find a system copy, and various copies of libraries from ffmpeg, icu,
37 libvpx, and zlib (including libminizip) which have been forked by the
38 <application>chromium</application> developers.
39 </para>
40
41 <para>
42 This package and browsers using it may be useful if you need to use a
43 website designed for google chrome, or chromium, browsers.
44 </para>
45
46 <important>
47 <para>
48 Qt-5.15 reached End Of Life on 26 May 2023. Extended lifetime Qt5.15 LTS
49 has been extended until 26th May 2025 for those with subscription licenses.
50 Because qtwebengine uses chromium code under the LGPL, it appears that any
51 new backported CVE fixes for QtWebEngine will be available after Qt makes
52 public releases of its current versions.
53 </para>
54 </important>
55
56 <warning>
57 <para>
58 QtWebEngine uses a forked copy of chromium, and is therefore vulnerable
59 to many issues found there. The Qt developers have always preferred to
60 make releases at the same time as the rest of Qt (rather than adding
61 emergency fixes), but with stable versions getting released after the
62 current development version. Now that they are keen to move to Qt6, the
63 5.15.3 and later Qt-5.15 releases are initially only available to paying
64 customers. QtWebEngine is something of an exception because of its LGPL
65 licence, but getting the git sources (with the forked chromium submodule)
66 to a position where they will successfully build on a current BLFS system
67 can take a lot of effort and therefore updates to the book may be delayed.
68 </para>
69
70 <para>
71 It seems likely that future 5.15-series versions will also be released
72 long after the chromium vulnerabilities are known, but fixes for
73 QtWebEngine can be found in git and the editors take the view that
74 known vulnerabilities in browsers should be fixed.
75 </para>
76
77 <para> <!-- for git versions -->
78 The tarball linked to below was created from the 5.15<!--.15--> git branch
79 and the 87-branch of the chromium submodule (which is forked from
80 chromium). See the GIT-VERSIONS file in the tarball for details of the
81 latest commits.
82 </para>
83 </warning>
84
85 <!-- note for editors on obtaining webengine from git.
86 First (if you do not already have a past version)
87 git clone git://code.qt.io/qt/qtwebengine.git
88 git submodule init -
89 that will report qtwebengine-chromium.git registered for src/3rdparty
90 now find the main branch names:
91 git fetch origin
92 git branch -r
93 after a release is prepared (even if the rest is not public), the 5.15
94 branch now seems to get updated and might be what you want. But in the
95 approach to 5.15.6 the backported CVE and other security fixes were only
96 applied to 5.15.6. So, assuming that a 5.15.7 branch now exists,
97 git checkout origin/5.15.7
98 Confirm that HEAD is where you expected.
99 Now go to src/3rdparty
100 git fetch origin
101 git branch -r
102 The required branch is likely to be 87-branch unless there is a newer one
103 mentioned in the 5.15 cgit web page (below).
104 git checkout origin/87-branch (or whatever)
105 Use git log or git tk to look at its HEAD and check it seems appropriate.
106 If this doesn't work, use 'git submodule update'
107
108 To decide when it might be worth creating a new tarball, periodically keep
109 an eye on https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebengine.git/ (currently, the 5.15.6
110 branch, 5.15.7 might get used later). The interesting items are CVE fixes
111 for known chromium vulnerabilities, as well as numbered Security bugs -
112 again, these relate to chromium.
113
114 When I noticed some updates in late March I was searching for one of the
115 CVEs mentioned, and google found a link to a review page for Michael Brüning
116 at https://codereview.qt-project.org/q/owner:michael.bruning%2540qt.io At that
117 time I could see various unmerged items, so I waited. The items for the
118 90-based chromium module are not relevant to 5.15-series (possibly they will
119 be for qtwebengine-6+). Review queues for other Qt employees might be found
120 in a similar way, but remember that everythng EXCEPT qtwebengine and chromium
121 is private to Qt until they choose to release it.
122
123 NOTE: the 3rdparty/chromium tree may contain more patches than have been
124 merged into the current 5.15.x branch. Any patches after what was in the
125 last 'update chromium' merge in qtwebengine occasionally break the build.
126
127 After merging the contents of the qtwebengine and src/3rdparty git extracts,
128 in the top level please create a GIT-VERSIONS file summarising the HEAD
129 commits of both parts, as a reminder of where we are up to. I've nove added
130 a CVE-fixes to keep track of what has been fixed (comits before 5.15.2 did not
131 mention the CVEs until they were detailed in a release).
132
133 Now create tarballs - 'git archive' does not work across submodule boundaries,
134 so you need to create one archive from the top of qtwebengine/ and another
135 from the top of src/3rdparty (chromium, gn, ninja are apparently all part of
136 the qtwebengine-chromium module). Then in a work area untar the qtwebengine
137 tarball, go down to src/3rdparty and untar the submodule tarball.
138 Decide on what to call the result and create a full xz tarball using tar -cJf.
139
140 NOTE: To use git archive, use something like this:
141 git archive - -format tar.gz - -output qtwebengine.tar.gz HEAD
142 git archive - -format tar.gz - -output chromium.tar.gz HEAD
143
144 UPDATE: Since we have to host the tarball, and it is over 300MB, it makes
145 sense to create a patch for subsequent fixes (for the first version, 314KB
146 including the updates to the GIT-VERSIONS file). For future updates, view
147 the current updates patch to see the previous commits. When the new commits
148 have been applied, rename the updated version to 'b', but untar the
149 unpatched tarball as 'a' and then diff a to b in the usual manner to get
150 all updates since the tarball was created.
151
152 For our own releases, probably best to create a fresh tarball.
153
154 end of note for editors -->
155
156 &lfs120_checked;
157
158 <warning>
159 <para>
160 By default, ninja will use all online CPUs +2 (if at least 4 exist),
161 even if they are not available to the current task because the build
162 terminal has been restricted with 'taskset'. In BLFS, this package
163 takes more time to build than any other. In one example,
164 the build of this package crashed at about the 90 percent point
165 due to an out of memory problem on a system with 24 cores and 32 GB
166 of memory.
167 </para>
168
169 <para>
170 To work around this, see the Command Explanations below.
171 </para>
172 </warning>
173
174 <note>
175 <para>
176 If you are upgrading and have installed a newer version of <xref
177 linkend='icu'/> since you last installed <xref linkend='qt5'/>, you
178 will need to reinstall Qt5 before upgrading, otherwise the final link
179 of this package will fail with a warning that the version of icu
180 libraries needed by libQt5Core.so may conflict with the version
181 used for this package.
182 </para>
183
184 <para>
185 Unusually, the shipped GN build system (used to create the Ninja files)
186 requires a static <filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++.a</filename>
187 although the installed libraries correctly use the shared version. If
188 that static library is not present, the build will fail quite quickly.
189 Please note that if you try to build webengine as part of
190 <application>Qt</application> and the static library is not available,
191 that build will either complete without installing webengine, or else
192 fail during the install (both variants were observed in 5.12.0).
193 </para>
194 </note>
195
196 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
197 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
198 <listitem>
199 <para>
200 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&qtwebengine-download-http;"/>
201 </para>
202 </listitem>
203 <listitem>
204 <para>
205 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&qtwebengine-download-ftp;"/>
206 </para>
207 </listitem>
208 <listitem>
209 <para>
210 Download MD5 sum: &qtwebengine-md5sum;
211 </para>
212 </listitem>
213 <listitem>
214 <para>
215 Download size: &qtwebengine-size;
216 </para>
217 </listitem>
218 <listitem>
219 <para>
220 Estimated disk space required: &qtwebengine-buildsize;
221 </para>
222 </listitem>
223 <listitem>
224 <para>
225 Estimated build time: &qtwebengine-time;
226 </para>
227 </listitem>
228 </itemizedlist>
229
230 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
231 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
232 <!--<listitem>
233 <para>
234 Required patch:
235 <!\-\- keep links for releases and git versions as a reminder
236 that the tarball names names differ
237 <ulink url="&patch-root;/qtwebengine-everywhere-src-&qtwebengine-version;-ICU68-2.patch"/> \-\->
238
239 <ulink url="&patch-root;/qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-5.15.7-1.patch"/>
240 </para>
241 </listitem>-->
242 <listitem>
243 <para>
244 Required patch:
245 <ulink url="&patch-root;/qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-build_fixes-2.patch"/>
246 </para>
247 </listitem>
248 <listitem>
249 <para>
250 Required patch:
251 <ulink url="&patch-root;/qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-ffmpeg5_fixes-1.patch"/>
252 </para>
253 </listitem>
254 <!--
255 <listitem>
256 <para>
257 Required patch:
258 <ulink url="&patch-root;/qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-icu_73-1.patch"/>
259 </para>
260 </listitem>
261 -->
262 </itemizedlist>
263
264 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">qtwebengine Dependencies</bridgehead>
265
266 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
267 <!-- the qmake output tends to be misleading. 'khr' is from Mesa -->
268 <para role="required">
269 <xref linkend="nodejs"/>,
270 <xref linkend="nss"/>,
271 <xref linkend="pciutils"/>,
272 <xref linkend="python311"/>, and
273 (<xref linkend='qt5'/> or
274 <xref role="nodep" linkend='qt5-components'/> with qtlocation and qtwebchannel)
275 </para>
276
277 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
278 <note>
279 <para>
280 If these packages are not installed, the build process will compile and
281 install its own (perhaps older) version, with the side effect of
282 increasing build and installed disk space and build time.
283 </para>
284 </note>
285
286 <para role="recommended">
287 either <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/> or
288 <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/> (or both),
289 <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
290 <!-- awkward wording - libxslt needs libxml2, if libxml2 is built
291 before icu then the *shipped* icu will be used -->
292 <xref linkend="icu"/> (built before <xref linkend="libxml2"/>),
293 <xref linkend="libwebp"/>,
294 <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, and
295 <xref linkend="opus"/>
296 </para>
297
298 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
299 <para role="optional">
300 <xref linkend="libevent"/>,
301 <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
302 <xref linkend="pipewire"/>,
303 <xref linkend="poppler"/>,
304 <ulink url="https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp/releases">jsoncpp</ulink>,
305 <ulink url="https://github.com/cisco/libsrtp/releases">libsrtp</ulink>,
306 <ulink url="https://google.github.io/snappy/">snappy</ulink>
307 </para>
308
309 </sect2>
310
311 <sect2 role="installation">
312 <title>Installation of qtwebengine</title>
313
314<!-- following merely commented instead of deleted, in case we need to
315 drop back when a future version of python3 is released -->
316<!--<note>
317 <para>
318 Unlike version 5.15.2, the chromium-derived build system now needs
319 <command>python</command> to be available and to be python2. In
320 BLFS-10.1 the creation of the python symlink was removed as a step
321 towards eventually getting rid of python2 (other old packages which
322 need python2 usually work by invoking python2). If you are still
323 using an earlier version of BLFS where
324 <filename>/usr/bin/python</filename> exists, you can skip the
325 commands to create the symlink, and to later remove it.
326 </para>
327 </note>
328
329 <para>
330 First, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
331 user, create the python symlink:
332 </para>
333
334<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -svf /usr/bin/python{2,}</userinput></screen>-->
335
336
337<!--<para>
338 Now apply a patch to update from 5.15.6 to the security and other fixes
339 contained in the 5.15.7 source:
340 </para>
341
342<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-5.15.7-1.patch</userinput></screen>-->
343
344 <para>
345 Apply a patch to fix several issues that can prevent the build from completing,
346 and to force it to use python3:
347 </para>
348
349<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-build_fixes-2.patch</userinput></screen>
350
351 <para>
352 If building with system <xref linkend='ffmpeg'/> as the editors
353 recommend, apply a patch that resolves problems when building with
354 ffmpeg-5 and later:
355 </para>
356
357<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-ffmpeg5_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
358
359 <!-- The ffmpeg commit effadce6c756247ea8bae32dc13bb3e6f464f0eb
360 already in system ffmpeg, but not this old shipped copy.
361 Not marked nodump because it won't affect the build with system
362 ffmpeg anyway. -->
363
364 <!-- Now in build_fixes-2
365 <para>
366 Otherwise, fix an issue in shipped ffmpeg causing it fail to build
367 with Binutils 2.41 or later:
368 </para>
369
370<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed 's/(uint8_t)\(([^)]*)\|shift\)/\1 \&amp; 0x1F/' \
371 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/ffmpeg/libavcodec/x86/mathops.h</userinput></screen>
372 -->
373
374<!-- start of commands for git versions only -->
375 <para>
376 Although the build_fixes patch has ensured that git is not invoked during the build,
377 the build system has labyrinthine rules of byzantine complexity, and in
378 particular trying to build without two <filename>.git</filename> directories
379 will lead to it eventually falling into unexpected and unbuildable code
380 which references a private header that has not been created. Avoid this
381 by creating the required directories:
382 </para>
383
384<screen><userinput>mkdir -pv .git src/3rdparty/chromium/.git</userinput></screen>
385
386 <para>
387 Because this version of qtwebengine is aimed at a later release than the
388 current public releases, change it to build for qt-&qt5-version; using a
389 sed:
390 </para>
391
392<screen><userinput>sed -e '/^MODULE_VERSION/s/5.*/&qt5-version;/' -i .qmake.conf</userinput></screen>
393<!-- end of commands for git versions only -->
394
395 <para>
396 Now, ensure that the local headers are available when not building as
397 part of the complete <xref linkend="qt5"/>:
398 </para>
399
400<screen><userinput>find -type f -name "*.pr[io]" |
401 xargs sed -i -e 's|INCLUDEPATH += |&amp;$$QTWEBENGINE_ROOT/include |'</userinput></screen>
402
403 <para>
404 Next, allow the pulseaudio library to be linked at build time, instead
405 of run time. This also prevents an issue with newer pulseaudio:
406 </para>
407
408<screen><userinput>sed -e '/link_pulseaudio/s/false/true/' \
409 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/media/media_options.gni</userinput></screen>
410
411<!-- Now in build_fixes-2.patch (except Python 3.12 changes, those are commented
412 until we eventually move to Python 3.12 again for this package (though
413 hopefully by that point these issues will be resolved)
414 <para>
415 Next, fix the build tools so they can be run with Python-3.11+:
416 </para>
417
418<screen><userinput>sed -e 's/\^(?i)/(?i)^/' \
419 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/tools/metrics/ukm/ukm_model.py &amp;&amp;
420
421sed -e "s/'rU'/'r'/" \
422 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/tools/grit/grit/util.py</userinput></screen>
423
424 <para>
425 Several fixes are needed for using Python-3.12+: first, either remove
426 references to the removed <command>imp</command> module or
427 replace it with the newer <command>importlib</command> module:
428 </para>
429
430<screen><userinput>sed -e "/import imp/d" \
431 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/mojo/public/tools/mojom/mojom/fileutil.py \
432 src/3rdparty/chromium/mojo/public/tools/mojom/mojom/parse/lexer.py &amp;&amp;
433
434sed -e "s/import imp/import importlib.util/" \
435 -e 's@.*load_source.*@\
436 spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(fullname, filepath)\
437 mod = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec);\
438 spec.loader.exec_module(mod)\
439 return mod@' \
440 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/components/resources/protobufs/binary_proto_generator.py</userinput></screen>
441
442 <note>
443 <para>
444 In the above instruction, the 4-space indentation of the four lines
445 from <command>spec = ...</command> to <command>return ...</command>
446 is significant, since they are in a Python script.
447 </para>
448 </note>
449
450 <para>
451 Remove an obsolete instance of and a reference to the
452 <command>six</command> module:
453 </para>
454
455<screen><userinput>sed -e /six.move/d \
456 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/protobuf/python/google/protobuf/internal/python_message.py &amp;&amp;
457
458rm -r src/3rdparty/chromium/tools/grit/third_party/six</userinput></screen>
459
460 <para>
461 There is also a workaround needed for ICU-74+:
462 </para>
463
464<screen><userinput>sed -e 's/^#define BA_LB_COUNT.*$/#define BA_LB_COUNT 40/' \
465 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/blink/renderer/platform/text/text_break_iterator.cc</userinput></screen>
466-->
467
468<!-- In build_fixes-2.patch now
469 <para>
470 Finally, fix a change in the build system which allows its developers to
471 pass e.g. -j20 to make (for quick tests of some areas) but breaks the
472 build with LFS's use of the NINJAJOBS environment variable:
473 </para>
474-->
475<!-- editors: See thread at
476http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2019-December/036996.html
477et.seq, particularly 037002.html which shows the commit near the end. -->
478
479<!--<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/NINJAJOBS/NINJA_JOBS/' src/core/gn_run.pro</userinput></screen>-->
480
481<!-- now that we always install this as 5.15.2, this seems to be redundant
482 <para>
483 If an older version of the package's main library has been installed,
484 when the package is built separately it will link to that in preference
485 to its own not-yet-installed version, and fail because of missing symbols.
486 Prevent that by, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
487 user, moving the symlink out of the way:
488 </para>
489
490<screen role="root"><userinput>if [ -e ${QT5DIR}/lib/libQt5WebEngineCore.so ]; then
491 mv -v ${QT5DIR}/lib/libQt5WebEngineCore.so{,.old}
492fi</userinput></screen>-->
493
494<!--<para>
495 The last fix is needed to build with gcc-12:
496 </para>
497
498<screen><userinput>sed -e '/#include/i#include &lt;vector&gt;' \
499 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/skia/src/utils/SkParseColor.cpp</userinput></screen>-->
500
501<!-- PATH=[...] will cause /opt/python3.11/bin/python3.11 to be hardcoded into
502 the makefiles instead of whichever python is in /usr/bin -->
503 <para>
504 Install <application>qtwebengine</application> by running the following
505 commands:
506 </para>
507
508<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
509cd build &amp;&amp;
510PATH=/opt/python3.11/bin:$PATH qmake .. -- \
511 -system-ffmpeg \
512 -proprietary-codecs \
513 -webengine-icu &amp;&amp;
514make</userinput></screen>
515
516<!--
517 <para>
518 if you wish to build the HTML documentation, issue:
519 </para>
520
521<screen><userinput>make docs</userinput></screen>
522-->
523 <para>
524 This package does not come with a test suite.
525 </para>
526
527 <para>
528 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
529 </para>
530
531<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
532
533 <!-- EDITORS NOTE: If you are updating this package, use INSTALL_ROOT=
534 instead of DESTDIR= -->
535<!--
536 <para>
537 If you built the HTML documentation, install it with:
538 </para>
539
540<screen role="root"><userinput>make install_docs</userinput></screen>
541-->
542 <para>
543 Remove references to the build directory from installed library
544 dependency (prl) files by running the following
545 commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
546 </para>
547
548<screen role="root"><userinput>find $QT5DIR/ -name \*.prl \
549 -exec sed -i -e '/^QMAKE_PRL_BUILD_DIR/d' {} \;</userinput></screen>
550
551<!--<para>
552 Finally, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
553 user, remove the python symlink:
554 </para>
555
556<screen role="root"><userinput>rm -v /usr/bin/python</userinput></screen>-->
557 </sect2>
558
559 <sect2 role="commands">
560 <title>Command Explanations</title>
561
562 <para>
563 <command>PATH=/opt/python3.11/bin:$PATH</command>: This switch forces
564 this package to use the version of Python 3.11 that is installed in /opt.
565 This is done to reduce the chances for problems that may occur during the
566 build, and to simplify the instructions since this package is incompatible
567 with Python 3.12 without additional modifications.
568 <!-- Ticket #19016 -->
569 </para>
570
571 <para>
572 <command>qmake</command>: This will build the included copy of
573 <application>ninja</application> if it is not already installed
574 and use it to configure the build.
575 </para>
576
577 <para>
578 <command>-- -system-ffmpeg -proprietary-codecs -webengine-icu</command>: If
579 any options are passed to qmake they must come after '--' which must follow
580 '..' that points to the main directory. The options here cause it to use
581 system ffmpeg and system icu. The '-proprietary-codecs' option allows
582 ffmpeg to decode H264 and H265 codecs. If built as part of full Qt5, the
583 system icu is automatically used (only) by Qt5Core if it is available, but
584 unless this option is used webengine will always use its shipped copy of icu,
585 adding time and space to the build. Remove the
586 <parameter>-system-ffmpeg</parameter> switch if you don't have
587 <xref linkend='ffmpeg'/> installed and want to build this package
588 with an internal copy of ffmpeg.
589 </para>
590
591 <para>
592 <option>-webengine-jumbo-build 0</option>: If this is added to the qmake
593 command it will cause the 'Jumbo Build Merge Limit' to be reported as 'no'
594 instead of 8. That turns off the jumbo build. Some distros do that to get
595 a smaller build on some architectures such as MIPS. On x86_64 it might save
596 a little space in the build, but the build time will increase by a very
597 large amount.
598 </para>
599
600 <para>
601 <option>-webengine-kerberos</option>: Add this if you have installed <xref
602 linkend="mitkrb"/> and wish to connect from a browser using QtWebEngine
603 to a webserver which requires you to connect via kerberos.
604 </para>
605
606 <!--
607 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
608 href="../../xincludes/SIOCGSTAMP.xml"/>
609 -->
610
611 <para>
612 <option>NINJAJOBS=4 make</option>: If you patched system ninja in LFS to
613 recognize the NINJAJOBS environment variable, this command will run system
614 ninja with the specified number of jobs (i.e. 4).
615 There are several reasons why you might want to use options like this this:
616 </para>
617
618 <itemizedlist>
619 <listitem>
620 <para>
621 Building on a subset of CPUs allows measuring the build time
622 for a smaller number of processors, and/or running other
623 CPU-intensive tasks at the same time. For an editor on a machine
624 with a lot of CPUs, trying to measure the build time for a 4-CPU
625 machine, <option>NINJAJOBS=4 make</option> will give a reasonable
626 approximation (there is a short period where N+2 python and node
627 jobs run).
628 </para>
629 </listitem>
630 <listitem>
631 <para>
632 On a machine with only 4 CPUs online, the default of scheduling
633 N+2 jobs for qtwebengine is slower by between 3% and 7%, probably
634 because of the size of the C++ files and their many includes and
635 templates. Therefore, if in doubt set NINJAJOBS to the number of CPUs.
636 </para>
637 </listitem>
638 <listitem>
639 <para>
640 Reducing the number of cores being used on long running, CPU
641 intensive packages may alleviate heat problems.
642 </para>
643 </listitem>
644 <listitem>
645 <para>
646 Reducing the number of cores will prevent potential out-of-memory
647 problems on systems that do not have enough memory (or swap)
648 when all cores are active. A suggested approach is to limit
649 the number of cores to about one core for each 1.5 GB of
650 combined RAM and swap space.
651 </para>
652 </listitem>
653 </itemizedlist>
654
655 </sect2>
656
657 <sect2 role="configuration">
658 <title>Configuring QtWebEngine</title>
659
660 <sect3 id="qtwebengine-config">
661 <title>Configuration Information</title>
662
663 <para>
664 If you are upgrading from an older minor version of this
665 application, for some webpages to load you may need to
666 clear the <emphasis>browser</emphasis> caches, e.g. for
667 <application>falkon</application> they will be found in
668 <filename class="directory">~/.cache/falkon/</filename>.
669 You will need to do this if the browser starts to render
670 the page and then changes to a blank tab with a message
671 that something went wrong, and a button to Retry. Even
672 after removing the old caches, you may need to retry a
673 few times for each affected tab.
674 </para>
675
676 <para>
677 If a browser using this package fails to run and when run
678 from a term it reports 'Trace/breakpoint trap' that is
679 probably a kernel configuration issue - there is no need
680 to rebuild QtWebEngine, see the next section, recompile
681 the kernel and reboot to the new kernel.
682 </para>
683
684 </sect3>
685
686 </sect2>
687
688 <sect2 role="kernel" id="qtwebengine-kernel">
689 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
690
691 <para>
692 This package does not require any of the optional kernel namespace items,
693 but if User namespace is enabled <phrase revision="systemd">(as happens
694 in some unit files, for hardening)</phrase> PID namespace must also be
695 enabled. In that case enable the following options in the kernel
696 configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:
697 </para>
698
699 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
700 href="qtwebengine-kernel.xml"/>
701
702 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine qtwebengine-kernel">
703 <primary sortas="d-qtwebengine">qtwebengine</primary>
704 </indexterm>
705 </sect2>
706
707 <sect2 role="content">
708 <title>Contents</title>
709
710 <segmentedlist>
711 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
712 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
713 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
714
715 <seglistitem>
716 <seg>
717 qtwebengine_convert_dict and
718 QtWebEngineProcess (in $QT5DIR/libexec)
719 </seg>
720 <seg>
721 libQt5Pdf.so,
722 libQt5PdfWidgets.so,
723 libQt5WebEngineCore.so,
724 libQt5WebEngine.so, and
725 libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so
726 </seg>
727 <seg>
728 $QT5DIR/include/QtPdf,
729 $QT5DIR/include/QtPdfWidgets,
730 $QT5DIR/include/QtWebEngine,
731 $QT5DIR/include/QtWebEngineCore,
732 $QT5DIR/include/QtWebEngineWidgets,
733 $QT5DIR/qml/QtWebEngine, and
734 $QT5DIR/translations/qtwebengine_locales
735 </seg>
736 </seglistitem>
737 </segmentedlist>
738
739 <variablelist>
740 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
741 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
742 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
743
744 <varlistentry id="qtwebengine_convert_dict">
745 <term><command>qtwebengine_convert_dict</command></term>
746 <listitem>
747 <para>
748 converts hunspell dictionaries (<literal>.dic</literal>) to chromium
749 format (<literal>.bdic</literal>)
750 </para>
751 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine qtwebengine_convert_dict">
752 <primary sortas="b-qtwebengine_convert_dict">qtwebengine_convert_dict</primary>
753 </indexterm>
754 </listitem>
755 </varlistentry>
756
757 <varlistentry id="QtWebEngineProcess">
758 <term><command>QtWebEngineProcess</command></term>
759 <listitem>
760 <para>
761 is a libexec program which runs a zygote process (one that listens
762 for spawn requests from a master process and will fork itself in
763 response)
764 </para>
765 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine QtWebEngineProcess">
766 <primary sortas="b-QtWebEngineProcess">QtWebEngineProcess</primary>
767 </indexterm>
768 </listitem>
769 </varlistentry>
770
771 <varlistentry id="libQtWebEngine-lib">
772 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libQtWebEngine.so</filename></term>
773 <listitem>
774 <para>
775 provides QML types for rendering web content within a QML application
776 </para>
777 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine libQtWebEngine-lib">
778 <primary sortas="c-libQtWebEngine">libQtWebEngine.so</primary>
779 </indexterm>
780 </listitem>
781 </varlistentry>
782
783 <varlistentry id="libQtWebEngineCore">
784 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libQtWebEngineCore.so</filename></term>
785 <listitem>
786 <para>
787 provides public API shared by both QtWebEngine and QtWebEngineWidgets
788 </para>
789 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine libQtWebEngineCore">
790 <primary sortas="c-libQtWebEngineCore">libQtWebEngineCore.so</primary>
791 </indexterm>
792 </listitem>
793 </varlistentry>
794
795 <varlistentry id="libQtWebEngineWidgets">
796 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libQtWebEngineWidgets.so</filename></term>
797 <listitem>
798 <para>
799 provides a web browser engine as well as C++ classes to render and
800 interact with web content
801 </para>
802 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine libQtWebEngineWidgets">
803 <primary sortas="c-libQtWebEngineWidgets">libQtWebEngineWidgets.so</primary>
804 </indexterm>
805 </listitem>
806 </varlistentry>
807
808 </variablelist>
809 </sect2>
810
811</sect1>
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