Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add qtwebkit.

[Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>]

Thomas Danckaert writes:

> Hi,
>
> this patch adds QtWebKit 5.7 as a separate package (hopefully this will reduce security concerns: only packages which really need QtWebKit will include it).
>
> QtWebKit is not officially supported anymore as of Qt 5.6, so this is a “community release” (not exactly sure what that entails, or if this includes any updates at all since the Qt 5.5 version).  I suppose many projects are switching to Qt WebEngine, and there are some efforts to create an updated version of QtWebKit (https://github.com/annulen/webkit), but in the mean time, this package might help build packages which still rely on the old QtWebKit.
>
> By default, the qmake build system for qtwebkit insists on installing into the same prefix as qtbase, and it seems no command line parameters will change that. The solution I came up with, was to substitute all the necessary paths in the generated Makefiles. This makes the patch a bit lengthy.
>
> I've also attached a minimal example.
>
> Thomas
> QT += widgets
> QT += webkit
> QT += webkitwidgets
> SOURCES = example.cpp
>   
> #include <QWebView>
> #include <QApplication>
>
> int main(int argc, char** argv) {
>     QApplication app(argc, argv);
>     QWebView view;
>     view.show();
>     view.setUrl(QUrl("https://www.gnu.org/software/guix"));
>     return app.exec();
> }

Thanks a lot for this patch.  I can confirm it builds fine, yet I have
to test it on some Qt packages that need QtWebkit (Texmaker).

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen