Bug 106693 – libxml2 is detected by build-webkit but include path is not passed during compilation

• Component: Platform
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Rich Dubielzig]

Created attachment 182402 [details]
output of build-webkit --qt

I am attempting to compile WebKit nightly on CentOS 6.3

[rich@localhost WebKit]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 07:05:20 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


I have installed the libxml2 and libxml2-devel packages on my system.

My build process is to add information about my qt-5.0 installation to my PATH and QTDIR environment variables, then navigate to the WebKit root directory and execute

./Tools/Scripts/build-webkit --qt

I can see in the configure tests run by the build process that libxml2 is found:


Running configure tests...

...
Checking for libxml2... yes
...


Yet when compilation runs to the point where Source/WebCore/dom/Document.cpp needs to be compiled, the file libxml/parser.h is not found.  This is because the flag -I/usr/include/libxml2 is not being included in the g++ call to compile the file.


I noticed that WebKit source is also included as part of the qt-5.0 source distribution.  I recompiled qt-5.0 and noticed that libxml2 flag was properly included with -I in that package.

This error also happens when I leave out the --qt flag and run build-webkit with no arguments or with --only-webkit.

I've attached the output of ./Tools/Scripts/build-webkit --qt >& build_debug

[Ahmad Saleem]

QT port is not supported anymore.

Marking this as 'RESOLVED WONTFIX', if there are similar bugs now, it would benefit from newer bug reports.