Qt packaging

Jan Palus atler at pld-linux.org
Mon Aug 8 23:10:13 CEST 2022


On 08.08.2022 08:32, Jan Rękorajski wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, Jan Palus wrote:
> 
> > On 22.07.2022 11:03, Jan Rękorajski wrote:
> > > Can someone explain why are we using split sources/packages for Qt?
> > > 
> > > I want to add Qt6 and building from the monolythic source is soooo much
> > > easier. No need for bootstrap, no intertwined build dependencies, just
> > > configure -> build -> build docs -> install.
> > > 
> > > And unless there is a _very_ good reason to use split sources I'm just going
> > > to add a single qt6 package that builds everything (we can still subpackage
> > > bineries as we want them).
> > 
> > As long as each component is bcondized and there are no "to the exact
> > release" dependencies then I guess it's fine. Doing qtwebengine (and all
> > the other components) rebuild each time qtbase needs a small packaging
> > adjustment would be tough on arm, though I'd understand if nobody cared
> > about my use case.
> 
> FYI build time on builders is 1.5 hour without qtwebengine and 7 hours
> with qtwebengine.
> 
> I don't know how it looks on arm, but IMHO no-webengine bcond should be enough?

Multiply it by ~4 and it's roughly result for arm. The first part I
mean, qtwebengine is so heavy that I build it in AWS.

Anyway no worries, if needed I can add more bconds myself. And thanks a
lot for working on qt6!


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