bug#66068: 30.0.50; xwidget-webkit-browse-url makes Emacs abort

[Eli Zaretskii]

Ping! Po Lu, could you please respond?

> Cc: 66068@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 12:32:02 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 12:23:28 +0100 (BST)
> > From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>
> > 
> > If my understanding of this bug is correct, newer versions of WebKitGTK 
> > reliably crash Emacs, and no-one has been in touch with the WebKitGTK 
> > developers, so there are no plans to fix that.
> > 
> > If that’s the case, how about this attached patch to disable this feature 
> > with problematic versions of the library?
> > 
> > From 262ea1bb8c47f703819f2df4d920a1f15f2c35b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Peter Oliver <git@mavit.org.uk>
> > Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 12:12:50 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] Disable xwidgets with recent webkitgtk versions (Bug#66068)
> > 
> > * configure.ac: Accept only webkit2gtk-4.* versions less than 2.41.92.
> > ---
> >  configure.ac | 5 +++--
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> > index 28361be4211..1d0ea314f6a 100644
> > --- a/configure.ac
> > +++ b/configure.ac
> > @@ -4511,10 +4511,11 @@ AC_DEFUN
> >  if test "$with_xwidgets" != "no"; then
> >    if test "$USE_GTK_TOOLKIT" = "GTK3" && test "$window_system" != "none"; 
> > then
> >      WEBKIT_REQUIRED=2.12
> > -    WEBKIT_MODULES="webkit2gtk-4.1 >= $WEBKIT_REQUIRED"
> > +    WEBKIT_BROKEN=2.41.92
> > +    WEBKIT_MODULES="webkit2gtk-4.1 >= $WEBKIT_REQUIRED webkit2gtk-4.1 < 
> > $WEBKIT_BROKEN"
> >      EMACS_CHECK_MODULES([WEBKIT], [$WEBKIT_MODULES])
> >      if test "$HAVE_WEBKIT" = "no"; then
> > -      WEBKIT_MODULES="webkit2gtk-4.0 >= $WEBKIT_REQUIRED"
> > +      WEBKIT_MODULES="webkit2gtk-4.0 >= $WEBKIT_REQUIRED webkit2gtk-4.0 < 
> > $WEBKIT_BROKEN"
> >        EMACS_CHECK_MODULES([WEBKIT], [$WEBKIT_MODULES])
> >      fi
> >      HAVE_XWIDGETS=$HAVE_WEBKIT
> > -- 
> > 2.46.0
> > 
> 
> Po Lu, any objections to this patch?
> 
> 
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