GNU bug report logs - #24404
Calibre can't find QtWebKitWidgets

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 02:52:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
To: Matthew Brooks <matthewfbrooks <at> mailbox.org>
Cc: 24404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "help-guix <at> gnu.org" <help-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#24404: "calibre" package fails to build.
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 20:19:51 +0200

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 08:13:58PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Interestingly enough, there is a commit in Calibre which claims to work
> on Qt 5.11 compatibility:
>    https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/68bbec179abc980ebcb3f13854d2e4fd46f4897c
> So the Calibre author apparently has managed to put it all together.

Well, he is simply using pyqt-5.8:
   https://github.com/kovidgoyal/build-calibre/blob/master/scripts/sources.json
(grep for "pyqt").

So what can we do? Add the previous version of pyqt with qtwebkit back?

Andreas
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