Re: First go at adding GCC_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED support

[Leonardo Taccari <iamleot%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello Greg, Jonathan and all tech-pkg@ readers,

Greg Troxel writes:
> Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> writes:
> > ./www/webkit-gtk/Makefile:GCC_REQD+=	4.9
> 
> Not on 2015Q3, so this is recent.  Is this something that can be worked
> around?  It is seeming like the world is getting crazy with more and
> more recent toolchain requirements.
Yes, webkit-gtk-2.10.0 (and newer versions) needs gcc>=4.9.

For more information please give a look here:

 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145211
 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98932

It is needed only by IndexedDB and I think it is possible to disable it
in order to go back to require gcc-4.7 or gcc-4.8 if needed (and then
patching Source/cmake/OptionsGTK.cmake to not require 4.9).

At the moment I have used www/webkit-gtk only via MiniBrowser (a browser
provided by webkitgtk) and it is used only by net/gnome-online-accounts.
No webkit-based web browsers in pkgsrc uses it.


Ciao,
L.