libXext was only needed (as a library) by QT when it was using
XLib/libX11 (as a library), now that we're building QT without
XLib/libX11, we can safely remove libXext.
Previously, in 683b7d7a3f and
0e752637a2, we accidentally broke QT's
ability to pick up Xlib thru the config.gui.tests.xlib configuration
test, which also means that config.gui.libraries.xcb_xlib wasn't run.
This resulted in a QT build that was implicitly -no-xcb-lib and
-no-feature-xlib.
This is actually a desired behaviour, as it means less required shared
objects for our final bitcoin-qt binary. Specifically, it eliminated the
libX11-xcb.so.1 and libX11.so.6 requirements.
In this commit, we explicitly build without Xlib. We should continue to
track upstream ticket https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-61452 which
talks about adding a -no-xlib (non-hidden) flag instead of the
-no-feature-xlib (hidden) flag.
For normal users, --no-same-owner is default, but not so for root, where
it is assumed that root can change ownership willy-nilly. This is not
the case for privilege-limited container environments where we gaslight
the process into thinking it's root.
We may eventually want to break out harfbuzz and build it in depends, but
for now just ensure that runtime dependencies don't depend on whether or not
harfbuzz was present on the builder.
A few years ago, libfreetype introduced FT_Get_Font_Format() as an alias for
FT_Get_X11_Font_Format(), but FT_Get_X11_Font_Format() was kept for abi
backwards-compatibility.
Our qt bump to 5.9 introduced a call to FT_Get_Font_Format(). Replace it with
FT_Get_X11_Font_Format() in order to remain compatibile with older freetype,
which is still used by e.g. Ubuntu Trusty.
Qt's configure grabs the path to xkb's data root during configure, but the
build changes in 5.8 apparently broke the handling for cross builds. As a
result, the string embedded in the binary depends on whether or not some files
are present in the builder's filesystem.
The "-xkb-config-root" configure setting is intended to allow manual overriding
but it is also broken. See: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-60005
This has since been fixed upstream, so just hard-code the path for now. We can
drop this patch when we bump to a fixed Qt.
Also, fix the "-qt-xkbcommon-x11" config param which was renamed. This does not
appear to affect build results, presumably because auto-detection is working,
but it does not hurt to be explicit.
6b5506a286 Fix Qt's rcc determinism for depends/gitian (Fuzzbawls)
Pull request description:
With the update to Qt 5.9 having been merged, Qt's `rcc` tool now embeds a file's last modified time in it's output. Since the build system generates temporary files for all locale translations (`*.qm` files) at build time, the resulting `qrc_bitcoin_locale.cpp` file was always being generated in a non-deterministic way.
This is a backport of https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-62511, which is included in Qt versions 5.11+, that allows for an environment variable (`QT_RCC_SOURCE_DATE_OVERRIDE`) to override the behavior described above. This environment variable is in turn set in the gitian descriptors, as that is where determinism is vital for release purposes.
Prior to this, the `qt_libbitcoinqt_a-qrc_bitcoin_locale.o` object file (included into `libbitcoinqt.a`) was returning a different `sha256sum` for each and every build, regardless of file contents change, thus breaking determinism in the resulting binaries.
This should fix#13731
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This contains a few hacks very specific to Qt's buildsystem. These can be
reverted once we split the build between native and target builds.
Qt's build contains a circular dependency when not using a system zlib.
By far the easiest fix is to switch to a system zlib, rather than Qt's own.
However, that confuses Qt's cross build which assumes that when using a system
zlib, it should also find a system (native) zlib for native tools. The build
breaks if that zlib is not present.
To solve this:
1. Always use a system zlib rather than the one provided by qt
2. Set force_bootstrap, which instructs the build tools to be built as though
we're cross-compiling (build != target)
3. For build tools, use qt's internal zlib so that a native zlib is not
required.
Step 3 means that if any zlib headers are found by the native build, it will
confuse Qt's internal zlib build. So we also need to make sure that the target
headers/libs aren't found. To do so, specify that our
cflags/cxxflags/cppflags/ldflags only apply for non-host builds.
qt5.7 changed the location of some of its symbols, creating a circular
dependency in Qt5Core. Rather than trying to fix that up, build our own zlib
rather than having it built for us.
Their buildsystem insists on using the installed ltranslate, but gets confused
about how to find it. Since we manually control the build order, just drop the
dependency.
Remove sed-based qt PIDLIST_ABSOLUTE workaround, replace by a patch that
works for both old (such as used by Travis and Ubuntu Precise) and new
mingw (Ubuntu Trusty).
tl;dr: Update to the newer stable toolchain and SDK for OSX without giving up
any backwards compatibility. We can move to clang 3.5 as a next step which
allows use to use libc++ and the 10.10 sdk, but we'll need to find a build that
works in gitian/travis first.
Switch to a new, better maintained fork of cctools:
https://github.com/tpoechtrager/cctools-port
I've forked this and will be working on it some as well:
https://github.com/theuni/cctools-port
This brings in:
cctools v862
ld64: v241.9
It also fixes 64bit builds, so there's no longer any need to use a 32bit clang.
Since clang is no longer tied to an old/crusty 32bit build, clang has been
upgraded to 3.3. Unfortunately, there's a bug in 3.4 that breaks builds. 3.5
works fine, but there are no binary builds compatible with precise, which is
currently used for gitian and travis. We could always build our own if
necessary.
After updating to stable clang/linker/cctools, it's possible to use a more
recent SDK. The current SDK (10.7) through the most recent 10.10 have all been
built/tested successfully, both with and without 10.6 compatibility. However,
10.10 requires clang 3.5.
SDKs >= 10.9 use libc++ rather than libstdc++. This is verified working as well.
Fixes default hidden symbol visibility for our linux->osx cross build. Without
this change, the check for working -fvisibility=hidden fails, and all symbols
are visible by default.
Ugly as this is, it's just a simple find/replace to fix a bug in Qt's configure.
They assume in an "XPLATFORM_MAC" block that the builder is capable of running
osx programs. This should be "BUILD_ON_MAC" instead.
