Okay, I may have been misled by the documentation of the current build on github. They expcilitly use meson for it.
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 5:52 PM Gatis Paeglis <gatis.paeg...@qt.io> wrote: > > library doesn't provide another way to build itself. > > libxkbcommon changelog for 0.7.2 > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-August/034721.html > > "Added a Meson build system as an alternative to existing autotools build > system. The intent is to remove the autotools build in one of the next > releases. Please try to convert to it and report any problems." > > libxkbcommon changelog for 0.8.3 > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2019-February/039970.html: > > "Build note: We've had a report that the autotools build doesn't work with > > the new version of Bison, 3.3. If this happens to you, please switch to > using meson. The autotools build will be removed in libxkbcommon 0.9.0." > > Note that 0.9.0 does not exist, so even the current master branch still > can be built with auto tools. > > > > Unless I misunderstand something this change hits older linuxes real > hard. > > Current minimal required version by Qt is 0.5.0 and only really old > distros do not have it. And to quote the commit message that removed the > library from bundled sources: > > "This library is present on all supported platforms." > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> on behalf of > NIkolai Marchenko <enmarantis...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2019 3:36 PM > *To:* Qt development mailing list > *Subject:* [Development] forcing libxkbcommon to be present in the system > makes newer Qt unusable on older linux distros > > > - [QTBUG-65503] Removed xkbcommon from bundled sources. This library is > present on all supported platforms. The minimal required version now is > 0.5.0. > > > The change above makes updating Qt a gargantuan task for Centos 6 at least. > > Building xkbcommon there requires meson (which centos 6 doesn't have) > > and python 3.5 (same). And the library doesn't provide another way to build > itself. > > > Unless I misunderstand something this change hits older linuxes real hard. > > Is it really necessary? > >
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