Fwd: Qt on PowerPC

[Ho Wan Chan]

Hello Kubuntu Developers and Jackson,

I'm skeptical as to using an unofficial port of the V8 engine for just one
architecture. After all, unofficial items should NOT be accepted into the
Ubuntu archive at all.

Jackson, do you think you can communicate with the person who ported the V8
engine to PowerPC to try and make it official?

Personally I would want the entire PowerPC architecture port in Ubuntu
killed, but my opinions about PowerPC do not comply  with the general
opinions of Ubuntu, Lubuntu and Kubuntu communities on the same matter.

Nevertheless, I am not willing to see a V8 engine in our archive that is
unofficial. But, we can wait probably until the official release of KDE
Frameworks 5 and Plasma Workspaces 2. Then we will have to see if we can
make the V8 engine official, or we just can't support Qt 5 on PowerPC. We
can still support KDE Software Collection 4 for PowerPC users if the latter
has to happen.

Regards,
Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
Kubuntu Member
On 2013/9/1 上午10:53, "Jackson Doak" <noskcaj at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Forwarded to kubuntu since it affects them too
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jackson Doak <noskcaj at ubuntu.com>
> Date: Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:36 AM
> Subject: Qt on PowerPC
> To: Julien Lavergne <gilir at ubuntu.com>,
> "lubuntu-qa at lists.launchpad.net" <lubuntu-qa at lists.launchpad.net>,
> Phill Whiteside <PhillW at 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
>
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