Re: Qt-5 in core-updates

[Andreas Enge]

Thanks, 宋文武, for this thorough research!

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 09:57:13AM +0800, 宋文武 wrote:
>  - Patch our python-2.7.x like Ubuntu does.
>    
> <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/python2.7_2.7.10-4ubuntu1.diff.gz>

To me, this sounds like the cleanest solution, but probably not in this core-
updates run, which has taken quite some time already.

>  - Patch the build phases of qt and webkitgtk to pre-generate *.pyc
>    files before the actually building.

This I would not know how to do, and we would need to do it for webkitgtk
also (of which we have three variants! so an independent question: can this
maybe be reduced? it seems to depend on gnucash).

>  - Restart the builds on hydra, hope it will pass.

This one I already tried, and I also built qt-5 once on my machine.
Áll three builds failed consistently. So something has apparently changed
on core-updates compared to master that triggers this failure.

>    Or disable parallel build completely.

That looks like the best short-term solution. I will try it locally and
push it to core-updates if it works, with "FIXME" remarks for after this
core-updates cycle.

Andreas