Subject: Re: bug#35232: webkitgtk-2.24.1 fails to build on i686, but earlier versions work

From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 23:45:32 +0200

Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hydra failed to build webkitgtk-2.24.1 on i686-linux, saying "SSE2
> support is required to compile WebKit".
>
>   https://hydra.gnu.org/build/3439652
>
> See below for the tail of the build log.  Note that earlier versions of
> webkitgtk built successfully on i686-linux, including 2.24.0:
>
>   https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/webkitgtk-2.24.0.i686-linux
>
> Removing support for i686, or even for systems without SSE2, seems like
> an odd thing for upstream to do in a point release.  Is it truly the
> case, or can we fix this with a change in configuration?

I dug around in the upstream git SVN mirror and found that the the
(harmless) change causing this failure had been reverted.

Fixed in commit e28ff04108ae7, thanks for reporting it!