Author: renodr
Date: Wed Jul 24 07:49:55 2019
New Revision: 21859
Log:
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'
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/building-notes.xml
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/x/lib/qtwebengine.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent Tue Jul 23 20:31:03 2019 (r21858)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent Wed Jul 24 07:49:55 2019 (r21859)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
-<!ENTITY day "23"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "24"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "07"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2019">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
<!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 #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version "development"> <!-- x.y|development -->
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/building-notes.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/building-notes.xml Tue Jul 23
20:31:03 2019 (r21858)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/building-notes.xml Wed Jul 24
07:49:55 2019 (r21859)
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@
<para>
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
hardening measures.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Tue Jul 23 20:31:03
2019 (r21858)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Wed Jul 24 07:49:55
2019 (r21859)
@@ -40,7 +40,19 @@
</listitem>
</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>
<itemizedlist>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/x/lib/qtwebengine.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/x/lib/qtwebengine.xml Tue Jul 23 20:31:03 2019 (r21858)
+++ trunk/BOOK/x/lib/qtwebengine.xml Wed Jul 24 07:49:55 2019 (r21859)
@@ -95,17 +95,16 @@
</listitem>
</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>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
@@ -161,6 +160,13 @@
xargs sed -i -e 's|INCLUDEPATH += |&$$QTWEBENGINE_ROOT/include
|'</userinput></screen>
<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
to its own not-yet-installed version, and fail because of missing
symbols.
@@ -172,22 +178,14 @@
mv -v ${QT5DIR}/lib/libQtWebEngineCore.so{,.old}
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
commands:
</para>
-<screen><userinput>mkdir build &&
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/SIOCGSTAMP/0x8906/' \
+src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/webrtc/rtc_base/physical_socket_server.cc
&&
+mkdir build &&
cd build &&
qmake .. -- -system-ffmpeg -webengine-icu &&
@@ -246,6 +244,9 @@
to the build.
</para>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
+ href="../../xincludes/SIOCGSTAMP.xml"/>
+
<para>
<option>NINJAJOBS=4 make</option>: If you patched system ninja in LFS to
recognize the NINJAJOBS environment variable, this command will run
system
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