[mythtv] Building myth against qt5.8

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 01/02/17 12:20, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> 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
> 

# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu Zesty Zapus (development branch)
Release:	17.04
Codename:	zesty

# apt-cache show libqt5webkit5-dev
Package: libqt5webkit5-dev
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 654
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers
<debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Source: qtwebkit-opensource-src
Version: 5.7.1+dfsg-1build1~2
Depends: libqt5webkit5 (= 5.7.1+dfsg-1build1~2), qtbase5-dev,
qtdeclarative5-dev
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
Filename:
pool/main/q/qtwebkit-opensource-src/libqt5webkit5-dev_5.7.1+dfsg-1build1~2_amd64.deb
Size: 73890
MD5sum: 6916d1e2009e11f2bde39b4a8ae3e59d
SHA1: 07ce01101066175958e62065f99b307bb1f6691e
SHA256: 5ed6281a81239456046cf7d1894260c31a137aa62c2afd7a9da59ebb8c2db22d
Description-en: Web content engine library for Qt - development files
 QtWebKit provides a Web browser engine that makes it easy to embed content
 from the World Wide Web into your Qt application.
 .
 This package contains the development files needed to build Qt 5
applications
 using QtWebKit library.
Description-md5: 67401855782c9d9d20cf3924364c73f3
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKit
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m


Yep, QtWebKit is present in 17.04.

EMERGENCY OVER! :)

Cheers
Stuart