FWIW the build seems to fail for me with:
Source/WebKit/gtk/webkit/webkitversion.h:37: Warning: WebKit: symbol='WEBKITGTK_API_VERSION': Unknown namespace for symbol 'WEBKITGTK_API_VERSION'
cc1: warning: command-line option ‘-Wno-class-memaccess’ is valid for C++/ObjC++ but not for C
/usr/bin/ld: ./.libs/libwebkitgtk-3.0.so: undefined reference to `_Z36soup_proxy_resolver_default_get_typev'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
linking of temporary binary failed: Command '['/bin/sh', './libtool', '--mode=link', '--tag=CC', '--silent', 'gcc', '-o', '/home/florian/.cache/yay/webkitgtk/src/build-gtk/tmp-introspectdws9s6d9/WebKit-3.0', '-export-dynamic', '-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2', '-march=x86-64', '-mtune=generic', '-O2', '-pipe', '-fno-plt', '-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks', '-Wno-expansion-to-defined', '-Wno-class-memaccess', '-pthread', '-std=c99', '-O2', '-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2', '-Wno-deprecated-declarations', '/home/florian/.cache/yay/webkitgtk/src/build-gtk/tmp-introspectdws9s6d9/WebKit-3.0.o', '-L.', 'libwebkitgtk-3.0.la', 'libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0.la', '-Wl,--export-dynamic', '-lgmodule-2.0', '-pthread', '-lglib-2.0', '-lgtk-3', '-lgdk-3', '-lz', '-lpangocairo-1.0', '-lpango-1.0', '-lharfbuzz', '-latk-1.0', '-lcairo-gobject', '-lcairo', '-lgdk_pixbuf-2.0', '-lsoup-2.4', '-lgio-2.0', '-lgobject-2.0', '-lglib-2.0', '-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now', '-Wl,--no-demangle']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
make[1]: *** [GNUmakefile:96213: WebKit-3.0.gir] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/florian/.cache/yay/webkitgtk/src/build-gtk'
make: *** [GNUmakefile:30371: all] Error 2
Any idea what could be going wrong there?
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frealgagu commented on 2019-04-14 18:13 (UTC) (edited on 2020-12-06 03:31 (UTC) by frealgagu)
FAQ
Q: What's the difference between this package and extra/webkit2gtk?
A: webkitgtk/webkitgtk2 provides WebKit1 API/ABI, which is not compatible with WebKit2 API/ABI provided by extra/webkit2gtk. WebKitGTK+ 2.4.x is the latest branch that provides WebKit1 API. Later branches provides WebKit2 API only.
Please don't flag it as out-of-date.
Q: Are there binaries for this package somewhere?
A: I maintain the latest built package at https://github.com/frealgagu/archlinux.webkitgtk/releases
Q: "error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
A: You'll need to rebuild against the latest version of ICU.
Q: "error: ‘WTF::StringImpl::StaticASCIILiteraicASCIILiteral’ has not been declared" or any enchant errors.
A: If you are building in parallel, try disabling parallel using -j1 in /etc/makepkg.conf
Q: Why building takes too long time?
A: WebKit is inherently big and complex. You can modify /etc/makepkg.conf or PKGBUILD directly to build it in parallel.
Change "make all stamp-po" by "make -j x all stamp-po" in PKGBUILD replacing x by cores your machine has. (Thanks to @MadMe)
Change /etc/makepkg.conf in that way: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/makepkg#Parallel_compilation under
# ARCHITECTURE, COMPILE FLAGSuseMAKEFLAGS="-j9"# It should be one more than your virtual CPUs. (Thanks to @tuxsavvy).However be pending if errors occur as mentioned in previous question.
Q: How much I want to wait to a successful compilation?
A: It varies of your PC's processor and RAM, the times shared in the comments are as follow:
3.5 hours to build on core i5 laptop with 8G of RAM, makeflags j4. (@cabbage)
13.5 hours to build on AMD Athlon X2, makeflags j1 (@Bonnietwin).
5-6 hours on Core2Duo E8400 with 8GB RAM, makeflags j2 (tuxsavvy).
50 minutes on 6c/12t 3.3GHz (@kubrick).