[mythtv] Building myth against qt5.8

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Wed Feb 1 12:20:01 UTC 2017


On 01/02/17 11:32, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 01/02/17 07:31, Roger James wrote:
>>
>> So QtWebKit from Qt disappears after 5.5. Ubuntu 17.04 freezes in two
>> weeks time with qt5.7.
>>
>> Looks like if I want to test Qt > 5.5 on current Ubuntu 16.04 I will
>> have use Ubuntu's own qt5Webkit5 source package and build that against
>> the newer Qt install.
>>
>> Oh joy.
>>
>> I was only trying to get past what appears to be a Qt 5.5 related
>> mythfrontend crash.
>>
>> Or am I missing something here?
>>
>> Roger
>>
> 
> I don't follow Ubuntu development. Has it been verified Ubuntu 17.04
> will use Qt5.7 and wont be providing packages for QtWebkit?
> 

I'm currently installing a snapshot to see what the state of play is.

> I know several devs are using various derivatives of Ubuntu up to 16.10
> which does have QtWebkit available (I've used Kubuntu 16.10 and
> Mythbuntu 16.10 without any problems).
> 

I use Fedora 25 for dev frontends, ubuntu 16.04.1 for the prod frontend
and also for the backend.

On Fedora at least, QtWebkit is still there with Qt5.7


Regards
Stuart




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