Bug 127309 – Webkit GTK 2.2.3 build fails if configured with --prefix command

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Niranjan Rao]

I want to install the build at $HOME/webkitbuild, so I ran configure as follows from the exploded tar ball directory.

./configure --prefix=$FP_BUILD_ROOT --enable-gtk-doc=no --enable-gtk-doc-html=no  --enable-gtk-doc-pdf=no  --enable-webkit1=no --enable-credential-storage=no --enable-debug-symbols=full

Configure command runs successfully. When running make command it fails with error

Make command says Source/autotools/FindDependencies.m4:95: warning: macro 'AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0' not found in library.

When configure is executed without --prefix parameter, everything is successful, but it wants to install where I need root permissions.

I have built other 2.2.3 dependencies with --prefix flags e.g. gtk+-3.6.4 and gstreamer-1.0.3. And it has worked correctly for those builds. It only fails for webkit-2.2.3 build.

A quick inspection reveals that it fails when make command tries to execute another configure command. Current workaround is to run configure without --prefix parameter, build once and then run configure again with --prefix parameter and then run make install.

[Zan Dobersek]

I'm assuming glib is not installed in the prefix you're using. Because of that, aclocal can't find the glib autoconf macros, so this error occurs.

Can you try exporting ACLOCAL_FLAGS='-I /glib/prefix' and then running configure?

[Niranjan Rao]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm assuming glib is not installed in the prefix you're using. Because of that, aclocal can't find the glib autoconf macros, so this error occurs.
> 
> Can you try exporting ACLOCAL_FLAGS='-I /glib/prefix' and then running configure?


I'll try that and post over here. However larger issue still remains. Configure help says  

==================================
 --prefix=PREFIX         install architecture-independent files in PREFIX

By default, \`make install' will install all the files in
\`$ac_default_prefix/bin', \`$ac_default_prefix/lib' etc.  You can specify
an installation prefix other than \`$ac_default_prefix' using \`--prefix',
for instance \`--prefix=\$HOME'.
==================================

If we go by above logic, that means I need to have all my libs $HOME.

Please suggest alternative way to install webkit build to different location, but still able to build from standard paths - which is what configure command without prefix flag does.

I have built other webkit dependencies with --prefix command and only webkit compilation is affected by this flag. It looks like all others treat it as just output location.

[Martin Robinson]

We no longer use autotools, but please create a new bug if you have issues with the CMake build.