[opensuse-packaging] Problem with PyV8 packaging
Hi, I have packaged the PyV8 [1] as python-pyv8 [2]. It is a python wrapper for Google's V8 engine. To be sane and allow the future commit into the openSUSE Factory, I built the svn version (r414 [2]), which can be built against v8 3.4.6.1 we have in Factory. As the v8's API is changing very fast and PyV8 did not have any release during more than a year, one can only find a working version from svn, as the API changes are reflected, just not released. But there is a big issue atm - PyV8 needs to have RTTI and Exceptions enabled in libv8.so, which is disabled by default. From that reason my current incarnation rebuilds v8 from scratch without --fno-rtti and exceptions and the _PyV8.so is statically linked with libv8.so. So this has to be solved somehow. I see following three opinions sorted from the less effort (at least for me ;-) to the most one 1.) build system wide v8 with exceptions and rtti 2.) create v8-source package and build python-pyv8 agains it 3.) build it with rtti and exceptions and install it to different directory and use rpath during linking The most prefferable would be 1.), just I don't know if this version of v8 will be compatible with Chromium. Number 2.) can be achieved easyly, but solves the problem only partially. Number 3.) seems to be the most complex solution, but expect more work from us. What do you thinkg about? [1] http://code.google.com/p/pyv8/ [2] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=python-pyv8&project=home%3Amvyskocil [3] http://code.google.com/p/pyv8/source/detail?r=414a [4] http://code.google.com/p/pyv8/wiki/HowToBuild Regards Michal Vyskocil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Michal, Apologies for the late reply. What I want to do is to build in a separate branch on OBS V8 with your changes and then to see how Chromium reacts on it. From the past I know that chromium is quite reacting on changes within V8. However I don't think that your request should make such a big difference. I will let you know the result. Regards Raymond On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@suse.cz> wrote:
Hi,
I have packaged the PyV8 [1] as python-pyv8 [2]. It is a python wrapper for Google's V8 engine. To be sane and allow the future commit into the openSUSE Factory, I built the svn version (r414 [2]), which can be built against v8 3.4.6.1 we have in Factory. As the v8's API is changing very fast and PyV8 did not have any release during more than a year, one can only find a working version from svn, as the API changes are reflected, just not released.
But there is a big issue atm - PyV8 needs to have RTTI and Exceptions enabled in libv8.so, which is disabled by default. From that reason my current incarnation rebuilds v8 from scratch without --fno-rtti and exceptions and the _PyV8.so is statically linked with libv8.so.
So this has to be solved somehow. I see following three opinions sorted from the less effort (at least for me ;-) to the most one
1.) build system wide v8 with exceptions and rtti 2.) create v8-source package and build python-pyv8 agains it 3.) build it with rtti and exceptions and install it to different directory and use rpath during linking
The most prefferable would be 1.), just I don't know if this version of v8 will be compatible with Chromium. Number 2.) can be achieved easyly, but solves the problem only partially. Number 3.) seems to be the most complex solution, but expect more work from us.
What do you thinkg about?
[1] http://code.google.com/p/pyv8/ [2] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=python-pyv8&project=home%3Amvyskocil [3] http://code.google.com/p/pyv8/source/detail?r=414a [4] http://code.google.com/p/pyv8/wiki/HowToBuild
Regards Michal Vyskocil
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