Bug 572982 – app-text/xiphos: try to use net-libs/webkit-gtk:4

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Pacho Ramos 2016-01-26 12:30:18 UTC]

Per INSTALL file it should work with webkitgtk4, that is preferred as it has security fixes over older slots:
https://github.com/greg-hellings/Xiphos/blob/master/INSTALL

Thanks

[Comment 1 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2016-01-27 00:21:50 UTC]

If memory serves it didn't work for me (couldn't find some headers at build time), I can look again though.

[Comment 2 Derk W te Bokkel 2016-01-28 15:06:29 UTC]

Created attachment 424088 [details]
xiphos-4.0.4.ebuild

modified vxiphos ebuild for webkit-gtk:4

[Comment 3 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2016-05-24 23:44:55 UTC]

Ah, okay, I had missed the --enable-webkit2 option. Fixed.

[Comment 4 Derk W te Bokkel 2016-05-25 15:24:37 UTC]

Can you please revert .. some library change don't know which has caused text to be invisible in xiphos-4.0.4 under webkit-gtk:4 .. since this bug was first reported .. sorry .. I delayed reporting it as it had not hit the tree .. but now it is an issue.. at least restore xiphos-4.0.4 and mask xiphos-4.0.4-r1 for further testing .. thx

[Comment 5 Derk W te Bokkel 2016-05-25 17:17:14 UTC]

upstream issue:  WebKit2GTK+ Does not display properly under GTK 3.18 and GTK 3.20 #756

[Comment 6 Derk W te Bokkel 2016-05-25 17:24:22 UTC]

that is xiphos.org as upstream

[Comment 7 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2016-05-25 23:47:35 UTC]

All right, masked -r1 and restored the original, thanks for the report.

[Comment 8 Pacho Ramos 2016-05-26 11:31:31 UTC]

*** Bug 584108 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Pacho Ramos 2017-07-31 10:30:37 UTC]

This is also the last consumer of gtkhtml (that is also dead), but, per waf files, it shouldn't be required when webkit-gtk is used:
        if opt.webkit_editor:
            conf.define('USE_WEBKIT_EDITOR', 1)
            env['ENABLE_WEBKIT_EDITOR'] = True
            common_libs += ' "gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24" '
        elif conf.check_cfg(modversion='gtkhtml-editor-3.14',
                          msg='Checking for GNOME3 gtkhtml-editor',
                          okmsg='Definitely',
                          errmsg='Probably not',
                          mandatory=True
                          ):
            common_libs += ' "gtk+-2.0 >= 2.14" '
            common_libs += ' "gtkhtml-editor-3.14" '
            common_libs += ' "libgtkhtml-3.14 >= 3.23" '

(in wscript file)

[Comment 10 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2017-07-31 23:40:47 UTC]

The issue isn't that it won't link against webkitgtk2, the issue is that the display doesn't work right with webkitgtk2 and it's basically not usable. See comment #7 and the linked upstream bug in the "see also."

[Comment 11 Pacho Ramos 2017-12-03 14:37:24 UTC]

This was fixed in 4.0.6a