Re: WebKitGTK known version to jhalfs and reversed dependency chain until poedit

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On Mon, 2026-01-19 at 11:59 +0100, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> > Douglas Reno said that I will need to build the GTK-3 version of
> > WebKitGTK. It makes sense to me. My doubt is: should I delete the
> > WebKitGTK construction directory and start over inside a fresh
> > uncompressed directory (default proceeding of the BLFS book) or am I
> > authorized to rebuild inside the same construction directory? A
> > fresh
> > construction directory means to construct the whole package again
> > from scratch.
> I think everything is explained on the webkitgtk page in the book
> (although the order or builds is reversed). Normally, jhalfs generates
> a script for both (gtk3 and gtk4) versions. But yes, you need to start
> anew for the other version. (change to the "build" directory and run
> "rm -r * .*" (note that .[^.]* is not needed anymore with modern
> versions of rm)).

FYI I tried skipping the rm command (attempting to save some build time)
but the result was a completely broken installation: the GTK4 version
was installed with the library and directory names supposed for the GTK3
version.

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