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Change libxml2 to use ICU.

Also adapt QtWebEngine now that it uses the system copy of libxml2.

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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 <xref linkend="icu"/>,
291 <xref linkend="libwebp"/>,
292 <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, and
293 <xref linkend="opus"/>
294 </para>
295
296 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
297 <para role="optional">
298 <xref linkend="libevent"/>,
299 <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
300 <xref linkend="pipewire"/>,
301 <xref linkend="poppler"/>,
302 <ulink url="https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp/releases">jsoncpp</ulink>,
303 <ulink url="https://github.com/cisco/libsrtp/releases">libsrtp</ulink>,
304 <ulink url="https://google.github.io/snappy/">snappy</ulink>
305 </para>
306
307 </sect2>
308
309 <sect2 role="installation">
310 <title>Installation of qtwebengine</title>
311
312<!-- following merely commented instead of deleted, in case we need to
313 drop back when a future version of python3 is released -->
314<!--<note>
315 <para>
316 Unlike version 5.15.2, the chromium-derived build system now needs
317 <command>python</command> to be available and to be python2. In
318 BLFS-10.1 the creation of the python symlink was removed as a step
319 towards eventually getting rid of python2 (other old packages which
320 need python2 usually work by invoking python2). If you are still
321 using an earlier version of BLFS where
322 <filename>/usr/bin/python</filename> exists, you can skip the
323 commands to create the symlink, and to later remove it.
324 </para>
325 </note>
326
327 <para>
328 First, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
329 user, create the python symlink:
330 </para>
331
332<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -svf /usr/bin/python{2,}</userinput></screen>-->
333
334
335<!--<para>
336 Now apply a patch to update from 5.15.6 to the security and other fixes
337 contained in the 5.15.7 source:
338 </para>
339
340<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-5.15.7-1.patch</userinput></screen>-->
341
342 <para>
343 Apply a patch to fix several issues that can prevent the build from completing,
344 and to force it to use python3:
345 </para>
346
347<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-build_fixes-2.patch</userinput></screen>
348
349 <para>
350 If building with system <xref linkend='ffmpeg'/> as the editors
351 recommend, apply a patch that resolves problems when building with
352 ffmpeg-5 and later:
353 </para>
354
355<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-ffmpeg5_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
356
357 <!-- The ffmpeg commit effadce6c756247ea8bae32dc13bb3e6f464f0eb
358 already in system ffmpeg, but not this old shipped copy.
359 Not marked nodump because it won't affect the build with system
360 ffmpeg anyway. -->
361
362 <!-- Now in build_fixes-2
363 <para>
364 Otherwise, fix an issue in shipped ffmpeg causing it fail to build
365 with Binutils 2.41 or later:
366 </para>
367
368<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed 's/(uint8_t)\(([^)]*)\|shift\)/\1 \&amp; 0x1F/' \
369 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/ffmpeg/libavcodec/x86/mathops.h</userinput></screen>
370 -->
371
372<!-- start of commands for git versions only -->
373 <para>
374 Although the build_fixes patch has ensured that git is not invoked during the build,
375 the build system has labyrinthine rules of byzantine complexity, and in
376 particular trying to build without two <filename>.git</filename> directories
377 will lead to it eventually falling into unexpected and unbuildable code
378 which references a private header that has not been created. Avoid this
379 by creating the required directories:
380 </para>
381
382<screen><userinput>mkdir -pv .git src/3rdparty/chromium/.git</userinput></screen>
383
384 <para>
385 Because this version of qtwebengine is aimed at a later release than the
386 current public releases, change it to build for qt-&qt5-version; using a
387 sed:
388 </para>
389
390<screen><userinput>sed -e '/^MODULE_VERSION/s/5.*/&qt5-version;/' -i .qmake.conf</userinput></screen>
391<!-- end of commands for git versions only -->
392
393 <para>
394 Now, ensure that the local headers are available when not building as
395 part of the complete <xref linkend="qt5"/>:
396 </para>
397
398<screen><userinput>find -type f -name "*.pr[io]" |
399 xargs sed -i -e 's|INCLUDEPATH += |&amp;$$QTWEBENGINE_ROOT/include |'</userinput></screen>
400
401 <para>
402 Next, allow the pulseaudio library to be linked at build time, instead
403 of run time. This also prevents an issue with newer pulseaudio:
404 </para>
405
406<screen><userinput>sed -e '/link_pulseaudio/s/false/true/' \
407 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/media/media_options.gni</userinput></screen>
408
409 <para>
410 Next, fix a build failure that occurs when libxml2-2.12.0 or later is
411 installed:
412 <!-- See Ticket #19246 -->
413 </para>
414
415<screen><userinput>sed -e 's/xmlError/const xmlError/' \
416-i src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/blink/renderer/core/xml/xslt_processor.h \
417-i src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/blink/renderer/core/xml/xslt_processor_libxslt.cc</userinput></screen>
418
419<!-- Now in build_fixes-2.patch (except Python 3.12 changes, those are commented
420 until we eventually move to Python 3.12 again for this package (though
421 hopefully by that point these issues will be resolved)
422 <para>
423 Next, fix the build tools so they can be run with Python-3.11+:
424 </para>
425
426<screen><userinput>sed -e 's/\^(?i)/(?i)^/' \
427 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/tools/metrics/ukm/ukm_model.py &amp;&amp;
428
429sed -e "s/'rU'/'r'/" \
430 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/tools/grit/grit/util.py</userinput></screen>
431
432 <para>
433 Several fixes are needed for using Python-3.12+: first, either remove
434 references to the removed <command>imp</command> module or
435 replace it with the newer <command>importlib</command> module:
436 </para>
437
438<screen><userinput>sed -e "/import imp/d" \
439 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/mojo/public/tools/mojom/mojom/fileutil.py \
440 src/3rdparty/chromium/mojo/public/tools/mojom/mojom/parse/lexer.py &amp;&amp;
441
442sed -e "s/import imp/import importlib.util/" \
443 -e 's@.*load_source.*@\
444 spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(fullname, filepath)\
445 mod = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec);\
446 spec.loader.exec_module(mod)\
447 return mod@' \
448 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/components/resources/protobufs/binary_proto_generator.py</userinput></screen>
449
450 <note>
451 <para>
452 In the above instruction, the 4-space indentation of the four lines
453 from <command>spec = ...</command> to <command>return ...</command>
454 is significant, since they are in a Python script.
455 </para>
456 </note>
457
458 <para>
459 Remove an obsolete instance of and a reference to the
460 <command>six</command> module:
461 </para>
462
463<screen><userinput>sed -e /six.move/d \
464 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/protobuf/python/google/protobuf/internal/python_message.py &amp;&amp;
465
466rm -r src/3rdparty/chromium/tools/grit/third_party/six</userinput></screen>
467
468 <para>
469 There is also a workaround needed for ICU-74+:
470 </para>
471
472<screen><userinput>sed -e 's/^#define BA_LB_COUNT.*$/#define BA_LB_COUNT 40/' \
473 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/blink/renderer/platform/text/text_break_iterator.cc</userinput></screen>
474-->
475
476<!-- In build_fixes-2.patch now
477 <para>
478 Finally, fix a change in the build system which allows its developers to
479 pass e.g. -j20 to make (for quick tests of some areas) but breaks the
480 build with LFS's use of the NINJAJOBS environment variable:
481 </para>
482-->
483<!-- editors: See thread at
484http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2019-December/036996.html
485et.seq, particularly 037002.html which shows the commit near the end. -->
486
487<!--<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/NINJAJOBS/NINJA_JOBS/' src/core/gn_run.pro</userinput></screen>-->
488
489<!-- now that we always install this as 5.15.2, this seems to be redundant
490 <para>
491 If an older version of the package's main library has been installed,
492 when the package is built separately it will link to that in preference
493 to its own not-yet-installed version, and fail because of missing symbols.
494 Prevent that by, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
495 user, moving the symlink out of the way:
496 </para>
497
498<screen role="root"><userinput>if [ -e ${QT5DIR}/lib/libQt5WebEngineCore.so ]; then
499 mv -v ${QT5DIR}/lib/libQt5WebEngineCore.so{,.old}
500fi</userinput></screen>-->
501
502<!--<para>
503 The last fix is needed to build with gcc-12:
504 </para>
505
506<screen><userinput>sed -e '/#include/i#include &lt;vector&gt;' \
507 -i src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/skia/src/utils/SkParseColor.cpp</userinput></screen>-->
508
509<!-- PATH=[...] will cause /opt/python3.11/bin/python3.11 to be hardcoded into
510 the makefiles instead of whichever python is in /usr/bin -->
511 <para>
512 Install <application>qtwebengine</application> by running the following
513 commands:
514 </para>
515
516<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
517cd build &amp;&amp;
518PATH=/opt/python3.11/bin:$PATH qmake .. -- \
519 -system-ffmpeg \
520 -proprietary-codecs \
521 -webengine-icu &amp;&amp;
522make</userinput></screen>
523
524<!--
525 <para>
526 if you wish to build the HTML documentation, issue:
527 </para>
528
529<screen><userinput>make docs</userinput></screen>
530-->
531 <para>
532 This package does not come with a test suite.
533 </para>
534
535 <para>
536 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
537 </para>
538
539<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
540
541 <!-- EDITORS NOTE: If you are updating this package, use INSTALL_ROOT=
542 instead of DESTDIR= -->
543<!--
544 <para>
545 If you built the HTML documentation, install it with:
546 </para>
547
548<screen role="root"><userinput>make install_docs</userinput></screen>
549-->
550 <para>
551 Remove references to the build directory from installed library
552 dependency (prl) files by running the following
553 commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
554 </para>
555
556<screen role="root"><userinput>find $QT5DIR/ -name \*.prl \
557 -exec sed -i -e '/^QMAKE_PRL_BUILD_DIR/d' {} \;</userinput></screen>
558
559<!--<para>
560 Finally, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
561 user, remove the python symlink:
562 </para>
563
564<screen role="root"><userinput>rm -v /usr/bin/python</userinput></screen>-->
565 </sect2>
566
567 <sect2 role="commands">
568 <title>Command Explanations</title>
569
570 <para>
571 <command>PATH=/opt/python3.11/bin:$PATH</command>: This switch forces
572 this package to use the version of Python 3.11 that is installed in /opt.
573 This is done to reduce the chances for problems that may occur during the
574 build, and to simplify the instructions since this package is incompatible
575 with Python 3.12 without additional modifications.
576 <!-- Ticket #19016 -->
577 </para>
578
579 <para>
580 <command>qmake</command>: This will build the included copy of
581 <application>ninja</application> if it is not already installed
582 and use it to configure the build.
583 </para>
584
585 <para>
586 <command>-- -system-ffmpeg -proprietary-codecs -webengine-icu</command>: If
587 any options are passed to qmake they must come after '--' which must follow
588 '..' that points to the main directory. The options here cause it to use
589 system ffmpeg and system icu. The '-proprietary-codecs' option allows
590 ffmpeg to decode H264 and H265 codecs. If built as part of full Qt5, the
591 system icu is automatically used (only) by Qt5Core if it is available, but
592 unless this option is used webengine will always use its shipped copy of icu,
593 adding time and space to the build. Remove the
594 <parameter>-system-ffmpeg</parameter> switch if you don't have
595 <xref linkend='ffmpeg'/> installed and want to build this package
596 with an internal copy of ffmpeg.
597 </para>
598
599 <para>
600 <option>-webengine-jumbo-build 0</option>: If this is added to the qmake
601 command it will cause the 'Jumbo Build Merge Limit' to be reported as 'no'
602 instead of 8. That turns off the jumbo build. Some distros do that to get
603 a smaller build on some architectures such as MIPS. On x86_64 it might save
604 a little space in the build, but the build time will increase by a very
605 large amount.
606 </para>
607
608 <para>
609 <option>-webengine-kerberos</option>: Add this if you have installed <xref
610 linkend="mitkrb"/> and wish to connect from a browser using QtWebEngine
611 to a webserver which requires you to connect via kerberos.
612 </para>
613
614 <!--
615 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
616 href="../../xincludes/SIOCGSTAMP.xml"/>
617 -->
618
619 <para>
620 <option>NINJAJOBS=4 make</option>: If you patched system ninja in LFS to
621 recognize the NINJAJOBS environment variable, this command will run system
622 ninja with the specified number of jobs (i.e. 4).
623 There are several reasons why you might want to use options like this this:
624 </para>
625
626 <itemizedlist>
627 <listitem>
628 <para>
629 Building on a subset of CPUs allows measuring the build time
630 for a smaller number of processors, and/or running other
631 CPU-intensive tasks at the same time. For an editor on a machine
632 with a lot of CPUs, trying to measure the build time for a 4-CPU
633 machine, <option>NINJAJOBS=4 make</option> will give a reasonable
634 approximation (there is a short period where N+2 python and node
635 jobs run).
636 </para>
637 </listitem>
638 <listitem>
639 <para>
640 On a machine with only 4 CPUs online, the default of scheduling
641 N+2 jobs for qtwebengine is slower by between 3% and 7%, probably
642 because of the size of the C++ files and their many includes and
643 templates. Therefore, if in doubt set NINJAJOBS to the number of CPUs.
644 </para>
645 </listitem>
646 <listitem>
647 <para>
648 Reducing the number of cores being used on long running, CPU
649 intensive packages may alleviate heat problems.
650 </para>
651 </listitem>
652 <listitem>
653 <para>
654 Reducing the number of cores will prevent potential out-of-memory
655 problems on systems that do not have enough memory (or swap)
656 when all cores are active. A suggested approach is to limit
657 the number of cores to about one core for each 1.5 GB of
658 combined RAM and swap space.
659 </para>
660 </listitem>
661 </itemizedlist>
662
663 </sect2>
664
665 <sect2 role="configuration">
666 <title>Configuring QtWebEngine</title>
667
668 <sect3 id="qtwebengine-config">
669 <title>Configuration Information</title>
670
671 <para>
672 If you are upgrading from an older minor version of this
673 application, for some webpages to load you may need to
674 clear the <emphasis>browser</emphasis> caches, e.g. for
675 <application>falkon</application> they will be found in
676 <filename class="directory">~/.cache/falkon/</filename>.
677 You will need to do this if the browser starts to render
678 the page and then changes to a blank tab with a message
679 that something went wrong, and a button to Retry. Even
680 after removing the old caches, you may need to retry a
681 few times for each affected tab.
682 </para>
683
684 <para>
685 If a browser using this package fails to run and when run
686 from a term it reports 'Trace/breakpoint trap' that is
687 probably a kernel configuration issue - there is no need
688 to rebuild QtWebEngine, see the next section, recompile
689 the kernel and reboot to the new kernel.
690 </para>
691
692 </sect3>
693
694 </sect2>
695
696 <sect2 role="kernel" id="qtwebengine-kernel">
697 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
698
699 <para>
700 This package does not require any of the optional kernel namespace items,
701 but if User namespace is enabled <phrase revision="systemd">(as happens
702 in some unit files, for hardening)</phrase> PID namespace must also be
703 enabled. In that case enable the following options in the kernel
704 configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:
705 </para>
706
707 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
708 href="qtwebengine-kernel.xml"/>
709
710 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine qtwebengine-kernel">
711 <primary sortas="d-qtwebengine">qtwebengine</primary>
712 </indexterm>
713 </sect2>
714
715 <sect2 role="content">
716 <title>Contents</title>
717
718 <segmentedlist>
719 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
720 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
721 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
722
723 <seglistitem>
724 <seg>
725 qtwebengine_convert_dict and
726 QtWebEngineProcess (in $QT5DIR/libexec)
727 </seg>
728 <seg>
729 libQt5Pdf.so,
730 libQt5PdfWidgets.so,
731 libQt5WebEngineCore.so,
732 libQt5WebEngine.so, and
733 libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so
734 </seg>
735 <seg>
736 $QT5DIR/include/QtPdf,
737 $QT5DIR/include/QtPdfWidgets,
738 $QT5DIR/include/QtWebEngine,
739 $QT5DIR/include/QtWebEngineCore,
740 $QT5DIR/include/QtWebEngineWidgets,
741 $QT5DIR/qml/QtWebEngine, and
742 $QT5DIR/translations/qtwebengine_locales
743 </seg>
744 </seglistitem>
745 </segmentedlist>
746
747 <variablelist>
748 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
749 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
750 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
751
752 <varlistentry id="qtwebengine_convert_dict">
753 <term><command>qtwebengine_convert_dict</command></term>
754 <listitem>
755 <para>
756 converts hunspell dictionaries (<literal>.dic</literal>) to chromium
757 format (<literal>.bdic</literal>)
758 </para>
759 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine qtwebengine_convert_dict">
760 <primary sortas="b-qtwebengine_convert_dict">qtwebengine_convert_dict</primary>
761 </indexterm>
762 </listitem>
763 </varlistentry>
764
765 <varlistentry id="QtWebEngineProcess">
766 <term><command>QtWebEngineProcess</command></term>
767 <listitem>
768 <para>
769 is a libexec program which runs a zygote process (one that listens
770 for spawn requests from a master process and will fork itself in
771 response)
772 </para>
773 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine QtWebEngineProcess">
774 <primary sortas="b-QtWebEngineProcess">QtWebEngineProcess</primary>
775 </indexterm>
776 </listitem>
777 </varlistentry>
778
779 <varlistentry id="libQtWebEngine-lib">
780 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libQtWebEngine.so</filename></term>
781 <listitem>
782 <para>
783 provides QML types for rendering web content within a QML application
784 </para>
785 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine libQtWebEngine-lib">
786 <primary sortas="c-libQtWebEngine">libQtWebEngine.so</primary>
787 </indexterm>
788 </listitem>
789 </varlistentry>
790
791 <varlistentry id="libQtWebEngineCore">
792 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libQtWebEngineCore.so</filename></term>
793 <listitem>
794 <para>
795 provides public API shared by both QtWebEngine and QtWebEngineWidgets
796 </para>
797 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine libQtWebEngineCore">
798 <primary sortas="c-libQtWebEngineCore">libQtWebEngineCore.so</primary>
799 </indexterm>
800 </listitem>
801 </varlistentry>
802
803 <varlistentry id="libQtWebEngineWidgets">
804 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libQtWebEngineWidgets.so</filename></term>
805 <listitem>
806 <para>
807 provides a web browser engine as well as C++ classes to render and
808 interact with web content
809 </para>
810 <indexterm zone="qtwebengine libQtWebEngineWidgets">
811 <primary sortas="c-libQtWebEngineWidgets">libQtWebEngineWidgets.so</primary>
812 </indexterm>
813 </listitem>
814 </varlistentry>
815
816 </variablelist>
817 </sect2>
818
819</sect1>
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