bug#51555: closed (webkitgtk broken with commit 8797a07a)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: webkitgtk broken with commit 8797a07a Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 13:20:30 -0400

It looks like webkitgtk won't build for me anymore after the version got bumped to 2.34.1.

The error happens during configuration, with relevant logging

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-- Could NOT find LibSoup: Found unsuitable version "", but required is at least "2.99.9" (found LIBSOUP_INCLUDE_DIRS-NOTFOUND)
CMake Error at Source/cmake/OptionsGTK.cmake:212 (message):
  libsoup 3 is required.  Enable USE_SOUP2 to use libsoup 2 (disables HTTP/2)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  Source/cmake/WebKitCommon.cmake:220 (include)
  CMakeLists.txt:20 (include)

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If instead I time-machine to the previous commit

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guix time-machine --commit=80c0505f166101bbe6d55b8f2314d1a18227b3ee -- install webkitgtk

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it all builds fine.

I think the issue is that with version 2.33 webkitgtk started building with libsoup3 by default. Since the last version in guix was 2.32.1 this would explain why this bump started causing issues. The package the libsoup guix pulls in (version 2) no longer satisfies the requirement and we can't build. Potential fixes are setting USE_SOUP2 or building with libsoup3 instead.

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> Re: bug#51564: [PATCH] gnu: webkitgtk: Fix configure failures.
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> FYI, I pushed commit 9d3a5ddc2700aa099bb1bf9c5e8b3062445b907a to
> 'master', which fixes the webkitgtk-2.34.1 build on x86_64-linux.  In
> addition to the fixes already shown in Liliana's proposed patch,
> 9d3a5ddc27 also arranges to use clang-11 for compilation.
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> Unfortunately, the build fails on i686-linux, which is the only system
> other than x86_64-linux where webkitgtk-2.32.4 was successfully built.
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> Note that I tried clang-11 first, because upstream WebKit surely uses
> clang for compilation, and it works for building IceCat on Guix, so I
> had it hunch that it was a good bet.  However, it would be good to now
> try compiling webkitgtk-2.34.1 with a newer version of GCC.  It's
> possible that might fix the build on i686-linux.
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> Anyway, I'm closing this bug.  I'll open another bug to track the
> i686-linux issue.
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>      Thanks,
>        Mark
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