Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:23:06PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >> >>> So, I've now given up on totem. Vlc is working on all my >>> on-disk/network files, so I'm resigned to building qt4 in future >>> (without the skin, which needs qt4, vlc is very similar to ffplay). >> I plan on updating Qt4 in the next few days. I've used it a lot in the >> last few years and can do the update relatively easily. The current >> update is 4.7.1 -> 4.7.4, but I note that they have had a 4.8.0-rc1 >> since mid-October. >> >> It does take a lot of time and space to build though. >> >> -- Bruce > 4.7.4 took 27.1 SBU (3877 sec on this box), so quite a bit quicker > than webkit-gtk. 989 MiB total, 94 MiB installed. But then, I've > only installed it for this one use, so I'm able to slim it down > quite a bit : > > yes | ./configure -opensource -release -no-accessibility \ > -no-qt3support -no-libmng -no-nis -no-pch -no-openvg \ > -no-phonon -no-webkit -no-javascript-jit \ > -prefix /usr \ > -nomake examples -nomake demos -nomake docs > > Many of those options probably don't belong in the book. From > previous experience, precompiled headers don't save time if you > aren't compiling qt apps every day and intend to blow away the > system in a year or two. > > I must admit I don't know what '-no-webkit' actually removes - > is webkit itself now part of qt ?
Yes. It was not in qt-4.3.4, but it was in qt-4.5. ll -h /opt/qt-4.7.0/lib/*Web* 820 /opt/qt-4.7.0/lib/libQtWebKit.la 766 /opt/qt-4.7.0/lib/libQtWebKit.prl 20 /opt/qt-4.7.0/lib/libQtWebKit.so -> libQtWebKit.so.4.7.0 20 /opt/qt-4.7.0/lib/libQtWebKit.so.4 -> libQtWebKit.so.4.7.0 20 /opt/qt-4.7.0/lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.7 -> libQtWebKit.so.4.7.0 22M /opt/qt-4.7.0/lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.7.0 During the build, it takes a looong time. > The '-opensource' switch, however, ought to be in the book. What > made me throw in the towel for kde4 (apart from the abhorrent cmake > and the unuseful desktop indexing that burned all my cpu cycles when > running) was the need to respond o for opensource, then yes to accept > the licence. Found another way round that with a here document, but > only having to pass 'yes' is so much simpler. Agree. I had (past tense) a commercial license. A more complete build string for BLFS also will have -no-separate-debug-info, but perhaps a mention of -qt-sql-mysql may be useful. Explicit stripping for qt will also save a lot of space. As a note here, we started to use the Qt4 wrapper around mysql, and it worked at first, but then we wanted to do secure mysql connections with certificates and ended up going to the mysql library bypassing the Qt wrapper. > '-nomake docs' is also worth considering, for people who are only > building qt4 to build e.g. kde4 rather than to use as a progamming > tool. Also agree. The docs are also available at http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/, but for programming, the Qt 'assistant' is quite nice. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
