building webkit

[Arunprasad Rajkumar]

As Kevin mentioned, I tried to make WebKit build work on Travis with few hacks(using ccache). It seemed to be working, but not consistently all the time.

> How does AdoptJDK solve problems of long build times? Can we not adopt
> their build chain/infrastructure?

Looks like they host their own CI infra without relying on Travis/Appveyor.

> On 25-Aug-2018, at 6:34 PM, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> How does AdoptJDK solve problems of long build times? Can we not adopt
> their build chain/infrastructure?
> 
> Tom
> 
> On 25.08.18 15:00, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>> Yes, this should be possible to do. Even without build changes, we could
>> build just the SDK + WebKit (and maybe media, too, or maybe a separate
>> job for that). The problem is that even building just WebKit takes
>> longer than Travis / Appveyor will allow. See PR #121 [1]. Arun can
>> comment further.
>> 
>> Irrespective of the above, as long as a compatible SDK (meaning an SDK
>> built from the current tip of jfx-dev/rt) is available for download, the
>> build can point to it, and will use the jfxwebkit and media natives from
>> that build. So if we had a nightly build available, most developers
>> could use that (it wouldn't help anyone making native changes to WebKit,
>> but would be fine for most developers who don't).
>> 
>> -- Kevin
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx/pull/121
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/25/2018 12:27 AM, Johan Vos wrote:
>>> We currently don't build WebKit with Appveyor/Travis, as the combined
>>> build
>>> time would be too long.
>>> 
>>> I'm wondering though if it would be possible to have separate build jobs
>>> for webkit? Typically, when building a JavaFX SDK, the webkit part is
>>> where
>>> things go wrong (if they go wrong), and have that somehow automated would
>>> be very helpful.
>>> 
>>> - Johan
>> 
> 
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