[mythtv-users] Compiling without qtwebkit

[Tom Dexter]

On 10/21/18, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I read in a few places that you can compile without it and that it
> does in fact work. I was actually able to prove that out on this
> machine, which doesn't have qtwebkit installed, by modifying the
> configure script so as to not require it, and just hard coding it with
> "disable qtwebkit". I'd like to go with this on my frontend and
> backend but here's my main concern: I tested a compile (though not an
> install) on one of those machines and it's clear that it links in all
> the qtwebkit stuff simply by virtue of it being installed. I'm VERY
> leery of uninstalling qtwebkit first in order to do this because...in
> the event that I run into issues...I'll be down for the entire time it
> takes me to recompile that monster.
>

While I'd never used it before, I'd forgotten that I can actually use
the Gentoo quickpkg to make a binary package to serve as a backup in
case I need to get qtwebkit back, and that would be instantaneous.

I'd still like to understand what it is that's actually pulling that
in. I don't have much of any understanding of that compile process
there, but it appears that the option -DUSING_QTWEBKIT gets used
regardless.

Tom