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Calibre can't find QtWebKitWidgets

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Message #32 received at 24404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Cc: 24404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "help-guix <at> gnu.org" <help-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "calibre" package fails to build.
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:49:14 +0200

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Hello,

I ended up disabling tests (see comments in the patch).
Now the package builds, but tries to install into the Qt directory; at the
end of the cmake phase, it prints:
  -- Installing in the same prefix as Qt, adopting their path scheme.
The previous version of the package contains a phase to adapt this,
but the .pri files to be modified do not exist any more.

I also tried to inherit from qtsvg like other qt* packages; but the
gnu-build-system does not work any more for qtwebkit, the build finishes
in a few seconds creating only the documentation and not compiling the code...

At this point, I am giving up; it would be nice if someone else could take
a look, I am attaching the current patch.

If there is no progress during the next few days, I would suggest to re-add
pyqt <at> 5.9 for calibre. What do you think?

Andreas

PS: There is a thread from 2016 in which the Calibre author states that he
    will stick with qtwebkit and in the worst case take over the maintenance
    of a fork:
       https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=270258

[0001-gnu-qtwebkit-Update-to-5.212.0-alpha2.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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