The buildbots now use JHBuild as well. Details on that mail from Martin: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2011-December/000831.html
Philippe On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 13:26 -0800, John Ralls wrote: > On Dec 25, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: > > > Im trying to build WebKitGTK+ such that I can always use the latest version > > on just about any Linux distro, similar to how the binary version of > > Firefox that Mozilla produce seems to run flawlessly on any Linux distro > > regardless of what libs that distro has. Presumably they do this by > > bundling everything it needs (libraries) to make it self contained? > > > > > > Ive tried to do this with WebKit but found the problem is library versions > > depeneded on by other libraries, it just becomes a minefield and after > > several weeks of messing around trying to get it to work I think this > > shared library problem is one of the biggest drawbacks to the Linux world - > > i.e many distros, many shared libs, some present, some not, some new, some > > older. > > > > It seems that its impossible to build a modern version of WebKitGTK+ on > > solid stable distos like RHEL/CentOS, Debian stable etc because WebKit > > insists on a much newer version of certain libs than the ones on those > > distros, and as I say trying to provide a local copy of each one seems > > impossible... > > > > Surely this must be possible though? Surely my dream of building a WebKit > > app that will just work on any distro like firefox does isnt that far > > fetched? > > > > Any suggestions? > > http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild > > You can build a completely (or partly) self-contained tree somewhere and use > environment variables in a startup script to aim webkit at the right > libraries. > > Regards & Merry Christmas, > John Ralls > _______________________________________________ > webkit-gtk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-gtk >
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