Bug 69920 – [Qt] [Symbian] Remove support for the Symbian platform for the QtWebKit port

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Platform

[Laszlo Gombos]

We no longer have plans to maintain the Symbian platform support for QtWebKit. In the interest of keeping the code clean and well maintained we should remove the Symbian specific code sections.

[Laszlo Gombos]

Created attachment 110675 [details]
1st try

[Kenneth Rohde Christiansen]

Comment on attachment 110675 [details]
1st try

rs=me! I guess maemo5 is next? :-)

[Chang Shu]

I lost my patience to finish reading this extremely long patch. :) But I noticed some *-armcc sections have been removed from the pro files. Is armcc specific to symbian?

[Kenneth Rohde Christiansen]

Comment on attachment 110675 [details]
1st try

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=110675&action=review

> Source/WebKit.pri:-112
> -symbian|*-armcc {
> -    # Enable GNU compiler extensions to the ARM compiler for all Qt ports using RVCT
> -    RVCT_COMMON_CFLAGS = --gnu --diag_suppress 68,111,177,368,830,1293
> -    RVCT_COMMON_CXXFLAGS = $$RVCT_COMMON_CFLAGS --no_parse_templates
> -    # Make debug symbols leaner in RVCT4.x. Ignored by compiler for release builds
> -    QMAKE_CXXFLAGS.ARMCC_4_0 += --remove_unneeded_entities
> -    # Match other compilers' (GCC, MSVC, WINSCW...) behavior regarding bitfield signedness.
> -    # This flag is not needed for RVCT 2.x.
> -    QMAKE_CXXFLAGS.ARMCC_4_0 += --signed_bitfields
> -}
> -
> -*-armcc {
> -    QMAKE_CFLAGS += $$RVCT_COMMON_CFLAGS
> -    QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += $$RVCT_COMMON_CXXFLAGS
> -}

Yeah I wonder about these as well.

[Laszlo Gombos]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (From update of attachment 110675 [details])
> View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=110675&action=review
> 
> > Source/WebKit.pri:-112
> > -symbian|*-armcc {
> > -    # Enable GNU compiler extensions to the ARM compiler for all Qt ports using RVCT
> > -    RVCT_COMMON_CFLAGS = --gnu --diag_suppress 68,111,177,368,830,1293
> > -    RVCT_COMMON_CXXFLAGS = $$RVCT_COMMON_CFLAGS --no_parse_templates
> > -    # Make debug symbols leaner in RVCT4.x. Ignored by compiler for release builds
> > -    QMAKE_CXXFLAGS.ARMCC_4_0 += --remove_unneeded_entities
> > -    # Match other compilers' (GCC, MSVC, WINSCW...) behavior regarding bitfield signedness.
> > -    # This flag is not needed for RVCT 2.x.
> > -    QMAKE_CXXFLAGS.ARMCC_4_0 += --signed_bitfields
> > -}
> > -
> > -*-armcc {
> > -    QMAKE_CFLAGS += $$RVCT_COMMON_CFLAGS
> > -    QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += $$RVCT_COMMON_CXXFLAGS
> > -}
> 
> Yeah I wonder about these as well.

These are indeed not (just) symbian specific. In theory these are for any QtWebKit port/project using RVCT, but to my knowledge the only port/project using RVCT is the Symbian port so I deliberately removed it. We surely do not have a buildbot using RVCT other than Symbian.

COMPILER(RVCT) code sections are not removed as those are indeed shared with other non-Qt based ports, but the changes in the Qt make file are for the Qt port only.

[Andreas Kling]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (From update of attachment 110675 [details])
> rs=me! I guess maemo5 is next? :-)

This is awesome. And that would be awesome, too!

[Laszlo Gombos]

Link to related qtwebkit-dev announcement/discussion - https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-qt/2011-October/001979.html .

[Chang Shu]

Makes sense.
> 
> These are indeed not (just) symbian specific. In theory these are for any QtWebKit port/project using RVCT, but to my knowledge the only port/project using RVCT is the Symbian port so I deliberately removed it. We surely do not have a buildbot using RVCT other than Symbian.
> 
> COMPILER(RVCT) code sections are not removed as those are indeed shared with other non-Qt based ports, but the changes in the Qt make file are for the Qt port only.

[Laszlo Gombos]

Landed as http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/97557. Closing bug.