From my exposure to people deploying QtWebKit or WebKit/GTK+ there are some things that re-appear and I would like to discuss these here. Weird compile error in JavaScript? It is failing in JavaScriptCore as it is the first that is built. It is most likely that the person that provided you with the toolchain has placed a config.h into it. There are some resolutions to it. One would be to remove the config.h from the toolchain (many things will break),…
Where did all my memory go? Who is allocating it, how much is being allocated? From where were theses QImages allocated? valgrind provides an accurate leak checker, but for a running application you might want to know about allocations and browse through them and don’t take the performance hit of valgrind (e.g with massif). There is an easy way to answer these questions, use memprof. memprof used to be a GNOME application, it was unmaintained, the website was gone from…
During my work on Epiphany I was debugging a problem with the “woohoo” bar. It took me not less than three days to understand the issue, write a test case, and a patch and put everything in this bug. Matthias Clasen was kind enough to review and commit the patch and it can be found here. Sadly the –author tag of git was not used and the commit does not carry my name, so ohloh will not list my contribution…
As of two days ago the Gtk+ buildbot is finally running the test suite after every build. And today we even have the first regressions that we need to address/understand. The short-, mid- and long term goal is now to get as many tests running as possible and keep them running. There are quite some bugs to be fixed in WebKit/Gtk+, our base libraries, our testing tools so there is plenty of fun left for everyone. In the webkit IRC…
Last year in India Simon showed me an ancient and well hidden qmake feature. With this hidden feature you can easily move some files to a new library. Why is this good? Well, the new library only contains the files you are currently working on. In most of the cases this will be only a hand full. You will get blazing fast linking and round trip times if you do so. So today I worked on a issue with SVGFont.cpp…