From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:28:55 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] WebkitGtk upgradation In-Reply-To: References: <512F0B0A.4050403@relinux.de> Message-ID: <20130228122855.6ceb26ce@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Will Newton, On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:22:27 +0000, Will Newton wrote: > As far as I can tell DirectFB is not really supported any more. If I > remember correctly the current WebKit in buildroot will build with > GTK+/DirectFB but will crash on startup. The crash is fairly easy to > work around but I think is a symptom of the fact that no one is > running with this setup. > > Newer versions of GTK+ removed the DirectFB backend so it may have to > be removed from buildroot in the future too. My feeling is also that the DirectFB backend of Gtk has never been seriously maintained over time. There are from time to time some people who fix the issues, but then it goes on unmaintained for a number of months/years, during which it slowly degrades into an unusable state. I would therefore suggest that Buildroot follows upstream: get rid of the DirectFB backend. If anyone really wants the DirectFB backend in Gtk, then it should be fixed upstream. But I don't think it should force Buildroot users to stay with old Webkit/Gtk because of this. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com