Hello Jackson, You made my previous e-mail useless:P
It will be good if we can package it in for PowerPC users. Since very few of the developers have a PowerPC device, you would have to do it yourself probably. Regards, Howard Chan (smartboyhw) Kubuntu Member On 2013/9/1 上午11:45, "Jackson Doak" <nosk...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Ignore the above emails, it seems that v8 is no longer needed as of 5.2 > I will look into packaging that > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Jackson Doak <nosk...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > Forwarded to kubuntu since it affects them too > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Jackson Doak <nosk...@ubuntu.com> > > Date: Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:36 AM > > Subject: Qt on PowerPC > > To: Julien Lavergne <gi...@ubuntu.com>, > > "lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net" <lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net>, > > Phill Whiteside <phi...@ubuntu.com> > > > > > > Currently most of Qt fails to build in ubuntu on powerpc. This is a > > huge bug for us since LXDE is rather dependant on Qt. > > > > The build issues can all be traced back to the javascript backend for > > Qt requiring google's v8 engine to work. The build log is at > > > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/147271709/buildlog_ubuntu-saucy-powerpc.qtjsbackend-opensource-src_5.0.2-3_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz > > . v8 is also used by chrome and chromium as a backend. > > > > The FTBFS list is at http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/ftbfs/ > > > > One possible solution is using the un-official v8 port. The old > > version is at https://github.com/ic/v8-powerpc and the new version at > > https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc . > > > > To-Do list (in no particular order): > > 1. Investigate which packages don't actually need the js backend and > > try to force them to build > > 2. Get julien to comment on this because he knows more than i do > > 3. Test both of the v8 git versions, see if either work well enough > > for us to use. > > 4. package the v8 git version we choose to use and patch the other > > code to be able to use it. > > 5. Contact the developers of the git versions for their help. > > > > It would be great if we could have this working by 14.04 > > > > Jackson > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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