Re: wip/phantomjs upgrade needed to avoid X dependency

On 3. 8. 2012, at 18:10, Mayuresh <[email protected]> wrote:

> http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/FAQ explains that 1.5 onwards
> phantomjs is pure headless, requiring no X.
> 
> Current wip version is 1.4 while the latest is 1.6.
> 
> Please post if there are any known issues in upgrading or if anyone is
> trying that out. If nobody is currently trying out, I'll give it a try to
> upgrade.

The problem is that the major improvement of 1.5 is that they embedded their own QT4 fork inside the PhantomJS build. Which means it suddenly got very ugly, and you'll likely need to replicate some/all the QT4 patches that pkgsrc already has in x11/qt4-libs in order to make it build properly. I *hate* this kind of embedded builds that work around the problem that the upstream doesn't want to accept something (or they wouldn't even try).

I'm sorry, I don't have capacity to address this in the near future. Feel free to try.

-F
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