[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 4/5] qt5webengine: new package

[Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>]

Gary,

Le 23/12/2015 15:21, Gary Bisson a ?crit :
> Julien, Thomas, All,
>
> Thanks for the quick replies.
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com> wrote:
>> Gary,
>>
>> Le 23/12/2015 10:49, Thomas Petazzoni a ?crit :
>>> Gary,
>>>
>>> On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:40:50 +0100, Gary Bisson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any update on this package? I'm asking since webkit is declared as
>>>> deprecated/legacy without an alternative. Let me know if I can be of any
>>>> help.
>>
>> I did not work on this qt module since my previous post. And QtWebkit
>> will be removed in Qt 5.6.0 released package (but sources will be still
>> available [1])
>>
>>>
>>> Right now, there is no longer any qt5webengine patch pending in
>>> patchwork, so we're waiting for someone to resend an updated version of
>>> the patch.
>>>
>>> If you have some time, and Julien Corjon agrees, maybe you can adopt
>>> his patch?
>>
>> Sure, you can adopt my patch and make every modifications needed to make
>> it work :-)
>
> Ok I'll look at it when I have time. I definitely would like to see
> the package for next release. Not sure I'll be able to submit anything
> before next year though.

Chromium is not an easy one. I give up because I didn't had enough time 
and skill...

>
> Regarding the current patch, I'm not sure about the armhf patch, does
> it default to armhf all the time (except when OS=android) even if the
> toolchain doesn't support it?

It default to armhf for arm7 even if the toolchain doesn't support it. 
It had some issue to compile with the linaro toolchain so i took this 
patch from chromium.

> Also dependencies need some work since this package implicitly depend
> on OpenGL, so the select of BR2_PACKAGE_QT5DECLARATIVE_QUICK can fail
> currently.

Indeed

>
>> With the release of Qt 5.6.0-beta I have start a branch to take a look
>> on status of pending Qt patch and evaluate the integration effort of the
>> 'new/not integrated yet' modules in Buildroot (canvas3D, location,
>> QuickControl2, Wayland, WebEngine, WebView).
>
> I don't feel brave enough to look at all those items, that's for sure.
> I'll let you know once I've spent some time on webengine.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>