Hi Mario,

Some comments inline.

I'm using snv_85.
$uname -ar
SunOS unknown 5.11 snv_85 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris


On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 08:36 -0700, Mario Goebbels wrote:
> I wanted to give it a try to actually try the Webkit interface in Pidgin. You 
> can actually compile it without major hassles.
> 
> Dependencies I had to install, fetched from sunfreeware.com:
> - sqlite3
Will integrate soon.
> - fontconfig 2.4.2 (requires changing the version number in fontconfig.pc, 
> which is still 2.2.98)
Changing version number does not make any more regression?
> - libcurl
$pkg-config --modversion libcurl
7.15.5
> - gperf
In SPE.
> 
> Things I had to do myself:
> - Symbolic link of gcc in /usr/bin, since it's hardcoded
Could be a bug, ideally not hard to make a patch.
> - Download and compile libicu, with LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic
$pkginfo|grep icu
system      SUNWicu                          International Components
for Unicode User Files
system      SUNWicud                         International Components
for Unicode Developer Files

> - Drop an implementation of vasprint in WebCore/dom/XMLTokenizer.cpp (PS: 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4508459)
> - Create a libexpat.la in /usr/local/lib (there's none in /usr/lib, 
> apparently also hardcoded)
> - Add -liconv in two places in the GNUmakefile
Checking iconv in configure.ac could be better.
> - Copy pkg.m4 from /usr/share/aclocal to the local directory and add "-I ." 
> to aclocal in autogen.sh
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS could be better
> 
> Things that might influences some errors of the lack of them:
> - In the past, I've compiled and installed autoconf and automake from gnu.org
Did you try JDS CBE?
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/contributing/building/#jds-cbe
> 
> Proof's in the pudding:
> http://www.storageserver.be/images/webkit_solaris.jpg
> 
> I had quite a few of linking issues regarding libstdc++ because I used 
> gcc4.2. I'll retry with the shipping gcc3.6.3 and see what happens.
How about using suncc?
> 
> I have absolutely no clue about packaging and anything beyond, but I'm sure 
> you SFE guys can use these findings to create a spec file.
I'm sure pkgbuild can help you making package simply, please do not
hesitate to try it.

Instruction locates at
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/contributing/building/


Cheers,
Halton.

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