[mythtv-users] Qt5webkit and php

[David Hampton]

On Sat, 2025-02-15 at 11:23 -0500, James Abernathy wrote:
> I'm trying to understand mythtv dependencies. For a number of distros
> mythtv/ansible solves this problem.  However on Archlinux we depend
> on the AUR, which is user maintained and sometimes falls behind.
> 
> A while back, qt5webkit, which is an AUR package fell out of favor
> and mythtv could not be built. At the time it was determined that
> using  AUR package  'python-pyqt5-webengine' would allow mythtv-git
> to be built. 
> 
> A number of users don't use the mythplugins and that seems to be
> where some of the webkit packages are needed.
> 
> I can build mythtv-git on Arch using a modified PKGBUILD file to make
> it use fixes/35 and removing python3-future dependency.
> 
> However, today I was playing with the new cmake build on Archlinux.It
> seems to build correctly with the exception of qt5webkit missing.
> Apparently, the python-pyqt5-webengine will not satisfy that
> dependency.
> 
> Any guidance?

My cmake build completes on arch without qt5-webkit installed.  The
lack of qt5-webkit just means that mythbrowser isn't built.  That's the
same thing that happens when you build MythTV for Qt6.  I would ignore
it.

David



[root at arch david]# pacman -Q | grep qt5
qt5-base 5.15.15+kde+r132-1
qt5-declarative 5.15.15+kde+r25-1
qt5-doc 5.15.15-1
qt5-location 5.15.15+kde+r7-1
qt5-script 5.15.17-3
qt5-svg 5.15.15+kde+r5-1
qt5-translations 5.15.15-1
qt5-webchannel 5.15.15+kde+r3-1
qt5-webengine 5.15.17-7
[root at arch david]#