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[Ho Wan Chan <smartboyhw@xxxxxxxxx>]

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