Changeset 55a55f1 for x

Timestamp:

12/30/2018 03:21:39 AM (5 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, bdubbs/svn, 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:

7626db56

Parents:

81a2d06d

Message:

Qt-5.12.0 and corresponding QtWebEngine. Thanks to Waleed Hamra for clarifying the linkage problem to me. Unfortunately, the new version of gn in webengine uses Python2 to create one of the headers.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@20891 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

x/lib

Files:

• qt5.xml (modified) (8 diffs)
• qtwebengine.xml (modified) (8 diffs)

x/lib/qt5.xml

@@ -5 +5 @@
   %general-entities;
 
-  <!ENTITY qt5-major "5.11">
+  <!ENTITY qt5-major "5.12">
   <!ENTITY qt5-url   "https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/&qt5-major;/&qt5-version;/single">
 
   <!ENTITY qt5-download-http "&qt5-url;/qt-everywhere-src-&qt5-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY qt5-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY qt5-md5sum        "02b353bfe7a40a8dc4274e1d17226d2b">
-  <!ENTITY qt5-size          "468 MB">
-  <!ENTITY qt5-buildsize     "11 GB (234 MB installed)">
-  <!ENTITY qt5-time          "48 SBU (using parallelism=4)">
+  <!ENTITY qt5-md5sum        "af569de3eb42da4457b0897e5759dc91">
+  <!ENTITY qt5-size          "487 MB">
+  <!ENTITY qt5-buildsize     "12 GB (260 MB installed)">
+  <!ENTITY qt5-time          "31 SBU (using parallelism=4)">
 ]>
 
@@ -124 +124 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional">
-      <xref role="runtime" linkend="bluez"/> (runtime, used by QtConnectivity
-      module),
+      <xref role="runtime" linkend="bluez"/> (for sdpscanner, and at runtime for
+      QtConnectivity module),
       <xref linkend="ibus"/>,
       <xref linkend="libinput"/>, <!-- needs -libinput switch -->
@@ -422 +422 @@
     <para>
       <parameter>-system-harfbuzz</parameter>: This switch enables use
-      of the system version of <application>Harfbuzz</application>
-      which fixes some font rendering issues in
-      <application>Qt5</application> applications but doesn't have all the
-      features that the included one has.
+      of the system version of <application>Harfbuzz</application>.
     </para>
 
@@ -524 +521 @@
           assistant, canbusutil, designer, fixqt4headers.pl, lconvert, linguist,
           lrelease, lupdate, moc, pixeltool, qdbuscpp2xml, qdbus, qdbusviewer,
-          qdbusxml2cpp, qdoc, ggltf, qhelpgenerator, qlalr, qmake, gmlcachegen,
+          qdbusxml2cpp, qdoc, qdistancefieldgenerator, qgltf, qhelpgenerator,
+          qlalr, qmake, gmlcachegen,
           qmleasing, qmlimportscanner, qmllint, qmlmin, qmlplugindump,
-          qmlprofiler, qml, qmlscene, qmltestrunner, qtdiag, qtpaths,
-          qtplugininfo, qtwaylandscanner,qvkgen, rcc, syncqt.pl, uic,
+          qmlpreview, qmlprofiler, qml, qmlscene, qmltestrunner, qtdiag, qtpaths,
+          qtplugininfo, qtwaylandscanner,qvkgen, rcc, sdpscanner, syncqt.pl, uic,
           xmlpatterns, and xmlpatternsvalidator
         </seg>
@@ -558 +556 @@
           libQt5SerialPort.so, libQt5ServiceSupport.a, libQt5Sql.so,
           libQt5Svg.so, libQt5Test.so, libQt5TextToSpeech.so,
-          libQt5ThemeSupport.a, libQt5UiTools.a, libQt5WaylandClient.so,
-          libQt5WaylandCompositor.so, libQt5WebChannel.so,
+          libQt5ThemeSupport.a, libQt5UiTools.a, libQt5VirtualKeyboard.so,
+          libQt5WaylandClient.so, libQt5WaylandCompositor.so, libQt5WebChannel.so,
           libQt5WebSockets.so, libQt5WebView.so, libQt5Widgets.so,
           libQt5X11Extras.so, libQt5XmlPatterns.so libQt5XcbOpa.so,
@@ -778 +776 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry id="qdistancefieldgenerator-qt5">
+        <term><command>qdistancefieldgenerator</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            allows a font cache to be pregenerated for Text.QtRendering to speed
+            up an application's startup if the user interface has a lot of text,
+            or multiple fonts, or a large amount of distinct characters, e.g. in
+            CJK writing systems.
+          </para>
+          <indexterm zone="qt5 qdistancefieldgenerator-qt5">
+            <primary sortas="b-qdistancefieldgenerator-qt5">qdistancefieldgenerator</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
      <varlistentry id="qgltf">
         <term><command>qgltf</command></term>
@@ -903 +916 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry id="qmlpreview-qt5">
+        <term><command>qmlpreview</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            is a tool used to analyze QML applications.
+          </para>
+          <indexterm zone="qt5 qmlpreview-qt5">
+            <primary sortas="b-qmlpreviewr-qt5">qmlpreview</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
       <varlistentry id="qmlprofiler-qt5">
         <term><command>qmlprofiler</command></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>
-            is a tool used to analyze QML applications.
+            is a tool which watches QML and JavaScript files on disk and
+            updates the application live with any changes.
           </para>
           <indexterm zone="qt5 qmlprofiler-qt5">
@@ -1002 +1028 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
+     <varlistentry id="sdpscanner-qt5">
+        <term><command>sdpscanner</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            performs a Session Description Protocol scan on a remote device,
+            using the SDP server represented by the local Bluetooth device.
+          </para>
+          <indexterm zone="qt5 sdpscanner-qt5">
+            <primary sortas="b-sdpscanner-qt5">sdpscanner</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
      <varlistentry id="syncqt.pl-qt5">
         <term><command>syncqt.pl</command></term>

x/lib/qtwebengine.xml

@@ -5 +5 @@
   %general-entities;
 
-  <!ENTITY qtwebengine-major "5.11">
+  <!ENTITY qtwebengine-major "5.12">
   <!ENTITY qtwebengine-download-http "https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/&qtwebengine-major;/&qtwebengine-version;/submodules/qtwebengine-everywhere-src-&qtwebengine-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY qtwebengine-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY qtwebengine-md5sum        "c3c086fd2bc0b25fce9737b3a1fe63fb">
-  <!ENTITY qtwebengine-size          "223 MB">
-  <!ENTITY qtwebengine-buildsize     "3.6 GB (139 MB installed)">
-  <!ENTITY qtwebengine-time          "56 SBU (using 4 cores)">
+  <!ENTITY qtwebengine-md5sum        "53d74f6ed0c188ee106381d9cba99e94">
+  <!ENTITY qtwebengine-size          "241 MB">
+  <!ENTITY qtwebengine-buildsize     "3.3 GB (134 MB installed)">
+  <!ENTITY qtwebengine-time          "36 SBU (using 4 cores)">
 ]>
 
@@ -33 +33 @@
     <para>
       <application>QtWebEngine</application> integrates
-      <application>chromium</application>&quot;s web capabilities into Qt. It
+      <application>chromium</application>'s web capabilities into Qt. It
       ships with its own copy of ninja which it uses for the build if it cannot
       find a system copy, and various copies of libraries from ffmpeg, icu,
@@ -42 +42 @@
     &lfs83_checked;
 
-    <note><para>By default, ninja will use all online CPUs +2 (if at least
-    4 exist), even if they are not available to the current task because the
-    build terminal has been restricted with 'taskset'.  To work around this,
-    see the Command Explanations below.</para></note>
+    <note>
+      <para>
+        By default, ninja will use all online CPUs +2 (if at least 4 exist),
+        even if they are not available to the current task because the build
+        terminal has been restricted with 'taskset'.  To work around this, see
+        the Command Explanations below.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        Unusually, the shipped GN build system (used to create the Ninja files)
+        requires a static <filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++.a</filename>
+        although the installed libraries correctly use the shared version. If
+        that static library is not present, the build will fail quite quickly.
+        Please note that if you try to build webengine as part of <xref
+        linkend="qt5"/> and the static library is not available, that build will
+        either complete without installing webengine, or else fail during the
+        install (both variants have been observed).
+      </para>
+    </note>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
@@ -87 +102 @@
     <para role="required">
       <xref linkend="nss"/>,
-      <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>, and
+      <xref linkend="python2"/>, and
       <xref linkend='qt5'/>
     </para>
@@ -101 +116 @@
 
     <para role="recommended">
+      either <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/> or
+      <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/> (or both),
+      <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
+      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
       <xref linkend="libwebp"/>,
-      <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, and 
+      <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, and
       <xref linkend="opus"/>
     </para>
@@ -127 +146 @@
     </para>
 
+    <para>
+      First, ensure that the local headers are available when not building as
+      part of the complete <xref linkend="qt5"/>:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>find -type f -name "*.pr[io]" |
+  xargs sed -i -e 's|INCLUDEPATH += |&amp;$$QTWEBENGINE_ROOT/include |'</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
+      to its own not-yet-installed version, and fail because of missing symbols.
+      Prevent that by, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
+      user, moving the symlink out of the way.:
+    </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>mv -v ${QT5DIR}/lib/libQtWebEngineCore.so{,.old}</userinput></screen>
+
 <screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
 cd    build &amp;&amp;
 
-qmake ..    &amp;&amp;
+qmake -- -system-ffmpeg -webengine-icu .. &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 <!--
@@ -172 +209 @@
       <application>ninja</application> if it is not already installed
       and use it to configure the build.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <command>-- -system-ffmpeg -webengine-icu ..</command>: If any options are
+      passed to qmake ithey must come after '--' and before the '..' which points
+      to the main directory. The options here cause it to use system ffmpeg and
+      system icu.  If built as part of full Qt5, the system icu is automatically
+      used (only) by Qt5Core if it is available, but unless this option is used
+      webengine will always use its shipped copy of icu, adding time and space
+      to the build.
     </para>
 
@@ -189 +236 @@
 
   </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="configuration">
+    <title>Configuring QtWebEngine</title>
+
+    <sect3 id="qtwebengine-config">
+      <title>Configuration Information</title>
+
+      <para>
+        If you are upgrading from an older minor version of this
+        application, for some webpages to load you may need to
+        clear the <emphasis>browser</emphasis> caches, e.g. for
+        <application>falkon</application> they will be found in
+        <filename class="directory">~/.cache/falkon/</filename>.
+        You will need to do this if the browser starts to render
+        the page and then changes to a blank tab with a message
+        that something went wrong, and a button to Retry. Even
+        after removing the old caches, you may need to retry a
+        few times for each affected tab.
+      </para>
+
+    </sect3>
+
+  </sect2>
+
 
   <sect2 role="content">