Hi all, after having fetched the trunk from the subversion repository, I did a build of the gtk port of webkit . My main interest was to ascertain the (straightforward?) supposition that a local htmfile is rendered as html - I already have WebKitGtk in use, but without that specific functionality . I did not want to make a system install, so just made a configure switch to install with prefix /opt/webkit, and anyways the GtkLauncher always reside in the buildtree . But no luck . As I have posted before on this list, viewing local htmlfiles is somehow simply not done in my setup ?!?!?!
However, before reaching that recurring conclusion I did have some trouble in getting the build system going . I have noticed that webkit.org and the wiki do have documentation on how to build, but I also noticed there were specific instructions for Windows and Mac, but not for GNU/Linux . Windows and Mac users are encouraged to use the scripts residing in the Script directory in the trunk, but I made the assumption that doing the thing manually by calling autogen.sh and so forth could be just as well . That was not the case . I have not checked the Script/<somescript> induced buildprocess, so what follows is only related to choosing to do a manual build : Automake find an error in WebKit/gtk/docs/GNUmakefile.am, and therefore do not write any GNUmakefile.in . To solve this, comment out the line containing EXTRA_DIST += . I do not know that option, but if you want the option it should be preceded with EXTRA_DIST = , so automake says . After installation you will find all the manpages dumped to the root directory (/) . That is a bit uncalled for . I guess you can avoid this by calling configure with --disable-nls . Build instructions: cd <builddir> sed -i 's/^EXTRA_DIST +=/\#&/' <srcdir>/WebKit/gtk/docs/GNUmakefile.am <srcdir>/autogen.sh --disable-nls regards, Steen _______________________________________________ webkit-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-help
