Re: pkg/56604: www/webkit-gtk 2.34.3 fails to build on NetBSD 9.x stable branches

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/56604; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/56604: www/webkit-gtk 2.34.3 fails to build on NetBSD 9.x
 stable branches
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:17:34 -0500

 I'd started with GCC 7.5 from pkgsrc because this package set that
 version as its minimum, and because that's the default version of GCC
 that was last pulled in when I built a bunch of other packages, like
 blas. I wanted to see if it really was the minimum still, since the
 package has grown C++17 expectations. In doing so, I found another
 problem relating to C++ templating. GCC 7.5 from pkgsrc gets us further
 along (48% vs. 20% of the build, according to CMake), and then it
 chokes on another C++ feature mismatch. So it seems the minimum GCC
 specified in the package no longer holds. I'm now re-testing with GCC
 10.
 
 This is the maximum effort I'm able to make here. I don't have time to
 delve into new-ish C++ features and WebKit internals, to see if some
 features can be disabled or patched. If someone else is interested,
 please do so. Or perhaps we could revert this to an older version that
 has more modest requirements. Or something else I haven't thought of.
 
 Dave