Changeset 52249aa

Timestamp:

07/24/2019 02:49:55 PM (5 years ago)

Author:

Douglas R. Reno <renodr@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 9.0, 9.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

7c93be03

Parents:

8fd509cb

Message:

Fix QtWebEngine's background rendering and multimedia crash problems, as well as adapt it to Linux 5.2+ API
Typo fix in 'Notes on Building Software'

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@21859 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (2 diffs)
• introduction/important/building-notes.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• x/lib/qtwebengine.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "23">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "24">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "07">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2019">
@@ -7 +7 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "July 23rd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "July 24th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

introduction/important/building-notes.xml

@@ -725 +725 @@
         Even on desktop systems, there are still a lot of exploitable
         vulnerabilities. For many of these, the attack comes via javascript
-        in a browser. Often, a seris of vulnerabilities are used to gain
+        in a browser. Often, a series of vulnerabilities are used to gain
         access to data (or sometimes to pwn, i.e. own, the machine and
         install rootkits).  Most commercial distros will apply various

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -41 +41 @@
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
-    -->
+       -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>July 24th, 2019</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Adapt QtWebEngine to API changes in Linux 5.2+ and
+          fix background rendering issues in Falkon, as well as crashes on
+          multimedia heavy sites.
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12296">#12296</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>July 23rd, 2019</para>

x/lib/qtwebengine.xml

@@ -96 +96 @@
     </itemizedlist>
 
-<!-- The patch is not needed anymore for 5.12.1
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
       <listitem>
         <para>
-          Required patch (if building on i686):
-          <ulink url="&patch-root;/qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-i686_alignof_fix-1.patch"/>
+          Required patch:
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-background_rendering_fix-1.patch"/>
         </para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
--->
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">qtwebengine Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
@@ -162 +161 @@
 
     <para>
+      Next, apply a patch that fixes background rendering issues in Falkon,
+      and crashes on multimedia-heavy sites.
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-background_rendering_fix-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+    
+    <para>
       If an older version of the package's main library has been installed,
       when the package is built separately it will link to that in preference
@@ -173 +179 @@
 fi</userinput></screen>
 
-<!-- Not needed for 5.12.1
-    <para>
-      If you are building on a 32-bit i686 system, GCC changed the alignof
-      operator to optimize the ABI. Unfortunately, this makes the alignof()
-      operator return an incorrect number (4 instead of 8). Apply a patch to
-      fix this:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../qtwebengine-&qtwebengine-version;-i686_alignof_fix-1.patch</userinput></screen>
--->
     <para>
       Install <application>qtwebengine</application> by running the following
@@ -188 +184 @@
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/SIOCGSTAMP/0x8906/' \
+src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/webrtc/rtc_base/physical_socket_server.cc &amp;&amp;
+mkdir build &amp;&amp;
 cd    build &amp;&amp;
 
@@ -246 +244 @@
       to the build.
     </para>
+
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" 
+       href="../../xincludes/SIOCGSTAMP.xml"/>
 
     <para>