I am working on a port of WebKit on Qt to a PowerPC platform. Please make sure that we don't break the Qt port in this switch. I am comfortable with autotools, so that is not a big deal for me. I am concerned, however, that this will cause a fork with the work being done by the Trolltech folks (since I think that they are primarily qmake-promoters).

Can we get some feedback from Trolltech on their ability to accept a switch to autotools for Webkit/Qt so we can switch to one new engine for all these ports?

Thanks,

Charlie

On Nov 12, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Robert Norris wrote:

If we cannot reach a conclusion, the GTK+ port will most likely go
ahead and switch to autotools.

I'm one person with a highly niche port, but for what its worth I'd
support a move to autotools.

I'm doing a port to AROS, which currently means cross-building WebKit on Linux. I opted to use qmake because it was the easiest one to get set up in a hurry (I have a little GTK+ experience so I could see how to cobble
together what I needed from the gtk-port stuff). Getting the
cross-compile happening is a bit of a hack though, and qmake docs are
rather thin.

If qmake is as hard to get hold of as you say (I don't actually know, my
distribution had it packaged), then I really don't want to put that on
my developers. Besides, eventually we will want to be able to develop
WebKit natively on AROS. Its highly non-POSIX, but we already have ports
of most of the tools need to do configure stuff. Since QT is not
something we'll ever need, a port isn't likely to appear.

Also cross-building is something I already know how to do with
autotools, which will mean less effort for me getting it set up.

2c.

Cheers,
Rob.
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