Bug 931590

Summary:	dev-qt/qtwebengine-5.15.13_p20240322: Missing ppc64 patches
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marcus Comstedt <marcus>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Qt Bug Alias <qt>
Status:	RESOLVED PKGREMOVED
Severity:	normal	CC:	marcus, nbowler, ppc64, sam, wrkemp
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC64
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924936
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	A fixed ebuild for qtwebengine-5.15.13_p20240322 with the ppc64 fixed put back Fix for bug 924936

Description Marcus Comstedt 2024-05-08 15:52:25 UTC

The qtwebengine-5.15.13_p20240322 ebuild is missing the ppc64 patches present in the qtwebengine-5.15.12_p20240122 ebuild, and can therefore not be built on ppc64.  With the removal of the qtwebengine-5.15.12_p20240122 ebuild, the package is now left in a [??] status on ppc64 where it can not be rebuilt or upgraded.

However, this is simple enough to fix:  The ppc64 code (and related patches) in the old ebuild can be used as they are, and still work.  I have tested this (on big endian, so also including my own patches from https://github.com/zeldin/chromium_be/tree/master/qtwebengine-5.15.11_p20231102) with Calibre.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to rebuild or update dev-qt/qtwebengine on ppc64
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Actual Results:  
The package can not be rebuild because qtwebengine-5.15.12_p20240122.ebuild was removed, and it can not be updated because qtwebengine-5.15.13_p20240322.ebuild is missing the ppc64 fixes.

Expected Results:  
The package can be updated to version 5.15.13_p20240322

Comment 1 Marcus Comstedt 2024-05-08 15:53:25 UTC

Created attachment 892498 [details]
A fixed ebuild for qtwebengine-5.15.13_p20240322 with the ppc64 fixed put back

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2024-05-08 16:17:07 UTC

It was dropped because of bug 924936 where nobody was maintaining them. If you're willing to step up, we can reconsider...

Comment 3 Marcus Comstedt 2024-05-08 16:23:50 UTC

> bug 924936

Ah. I have a fix for that in my personal patchset.

I could step up if you want; I'd supply patches for big endian as well in that case.

Comment 4 Marcus Comstedt 2024-05-08 16:25:30 UTC

Created attachment 892499 [details, diff]
Fix for bug 924936

Comment 5 Marcus Comstedt 2025-01-06 15:42:00 UTC

A new datapoint:

dev-qt/qtwebengine-5.15.16_p20241115 builds and runs perfectly on ppc64 (big
endian) with _exactly_ the same patchset that I have been using since
qtwebengine-5.15.12_p20240122.  So practically zero maintenance burden.

The only thing I had to do (in addition to carrying _all_ the ppc64 patches
instead of just the big endian ones in /etc/portage/patches) was to put the
"# we need to generate ppc64 stuff because upstream does not ship it yet"
block back in qtwebengine-5.15.16_p20241115.ebuild.