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

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On Tue, 2026-01-20 at 04:53 -0300, Jamenson Espindula wrote:
> Em seg., 19 de jan. de 2026 =C3=A0s 08:16, Xi Ruoyao
> <[email protected]> escreveu:
> >=20
> > 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)).
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> Thank you all folks for your reply!
>=20
> I have decided to delete the whole 'webkitgtk-2.50.4' directory. I
> unpacked it again and I began building the GTK-3 version.
>=20
> To be clear, the machine has an IvyBridge four cores processor and has
> eight (08) GB of RAM. After jhalfs finished building and installing
> the GTK-4 version, immediately I inspected the output of the 'free -m'
> program. The swap (in file) use was zero (no swapping at all was
> needed)! By the way, I keep the machine working only on the build (no
> Xorg working, nobody else accessing the system). As I am in my home, I
> can do that (machine exclusively dedicated to build the package).
>=20
> Pierre said: 'Normally, jhalfs generates a script for both (gtk3 and
> gtk4) versions'.
>=20
> Yes. jhalfs really generated the set of commands for both versions.
> However, I, manually, decided to eliminate the GTK-3 version commands!
> Why? Well, I thought to myself: the newer, the better.

It's not true as an obvious (to me) implication from the fact we have
both versions in the book and we also have different versions for
several packages in the book.

We don't keep useless things in the book.

--=20
Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>

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