From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] qt: remove the BR2_PACKAGE_QT_JAVASCRIPTCORE option
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 18:45:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131102174540.GD3542@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383409024-17839-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Thomas, All,
On 2013-11-02 17:17 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> The BR2_PACKAGE_QT_JAVASCRIPTCORE option was incorrectly used in
> Buildroot: it's help text and name was pretending it's here to
> enable/disable the JavaScriptCore, but what it did in fact is force
> enable or force disable the usage of the JIT mechanism for the
> JavaScript support in Qt.
>
> However, the JIT mechanism is architecture-specific, and therefore not
> available for all architectures, and Qt already knows on which
> architectures it is appropriate to enable JIT and on which
> architectures it is not.
>
> Therefore, this commit simply removes the
> BR2_PACKAGE_QT_JAVASCRIPTCORE option. We don't add it to
> Config.in.legacy, because the feature is still available, it's just
> that Qt will know automatically decide whether JIT should be used or
> not.
In fact, I think we should include it in legacy options, just so the
user is informed that this option is no longer available.
Your little blurb above would make a good help entry for that new legacy
option, BTW.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-02 16:17 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] qt: remove the BR2_PACKAGE_QT_JAVASCRIPTCORE option Thomas Petazzoni
2013-11-02 16:17 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] qt: don't allow building WebKit on some architectures Thomas Petazzoni
2013-11-02 18:02 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-11-04 6:50 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-11-04 23:00 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-11-02 17:45 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
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