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monotiz

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Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 140

Midori & webkit problem...

Hi,
I try to install midori by yaourt.
I have installe webkitgtk-svn:

[tiziano@arch64 ~]$ sudo pacman -Qs webkit
local/webkitgtk-svn 31079-1
    An open source web browser engine
[tiziano@arch64 ~]$

but when I try to compile midori, obtain:

...
checking for GTK... yes
checking for WEBKIT... no
configure: error: No WebKitGtk package information found
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
==> ERRORE: Compilazione interrotta.
    L'operazione sta per essere interrotta...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build midori package.

[tiziano@arch64 ~]$

What's the problem?

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: Midori & webkit problem...

The problem is that your webkitgtk is not found by the configure script of midori.

Try to find out wheather you have a file webkitgtk.pc somewhere on your system. If you have, try to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to that file.

TomE

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Registered: 2005-08-06

Posts: 164

Re: Midori & webkit problem...

midori-git works about 3 hours a go when I compiled it

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: Midori & webkit problem...

Hi,
I try to install midori by yaourt.
I have installe webkitgtk-svn:

[tiziano@arch64 ~]$ sudo pacman -Qs webkit
local/webkitgtk-svn 31079-1
    An open source web browser engine
[tiziano@arch64 ~]$

but when I try to compile midori, obtain:

...
checking for GTK... yes
checking for WEBKIT... no
configure: error: No WebKitGtk package information found
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
==> ERRORE: Compilazione interrotta.
    L'operazione sta per essere interrotta...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build midori package.

[tiziano@arch64 ~]$

What's the problem?

I tried to compile epiphany with webkit engine. The webkit configure script produces a similar error.
Something like "no package webkitgtk found".

I noticed webkigtk-svn installed only a license file

pacman -Ql webkitgtk-svn

local/webkitgtk-svn 31084-1
    An open source web browser engine

I build webkitgtk-svn with the PKGBUILD from AUR. Seems it compiled not correctly.

Last edited by SiD (2008-03-21 19:05:27)

rocktorrentz

Member

From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 141

Re: Midori & webkit problem...

Anyone find a solution to this? I just spent hours building webkitgtk-svn on my old P3 Celeron box but the build of midori fails with the above message. I have a .pc file at /usr/lib/pkgconfig/webkit-1.0.pc and webkitgtk appears to have installed correctly but even if I run "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig" I get the following message on build:

checking for WEBKIT... no
configure: error: No WebKitGtk package information found

Firefox is really slow on this box and I would really like to be able to try out webkit.

Thanks in advance

xsdnyd

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Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 110

Re: Midori & webkit problem...

you can try the webkit-nightly package on AUR. with this package midori builts fine

also i provide frequently updated webkit-nightly and midori-git packages in my repository:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42588

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rocktorrentz

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From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 141

Re: Midori & webkit problem...

I am trying to use your repo to avoid building webkitgtk-nightly from source but I get the following error and can't seem to find a solution:

midori: error while loading shared libraries: libgstinterfaces-0.10.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

edit: Installed the gstreamer0.10-python package from extra and that fixed it.

Last edited by rocktorrentz (2008-04-22 13:34:50)

xsdnyd

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Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 110

Re: Midori & webkit problem...

@rocktorrentz
you are right, i added gstreamer0.10-base-plugins as dependency, it is required for webkit. thanks for your report

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rocktorrentz

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From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 141

Re: Midori & webkit problem...

Glad to be of some use. I'm posting this from midori and although both the browser and the engine still need a lot of work, it is much faster (both loading and rendering) than firefox 3 and thanks to you I don't have to compile it all on this terrible processor .

ilpianista

Fellow developer

Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 568

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Re: Midori & webkit problem...

i made a patch
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11779

FIXED