[yocto] Webkit2gtk opengl issue

[Burton, Ross]

On 23 September 2015 at 12:53, Mark O'Donovan <shiftee at eircom.net> wrote:

> I am working on an am335x based project, with a webkitgtk
> program on the screen, displaying a simple webpage.
>
> I want to use a standard yocto kernel, which I believe
> means I must do without the SGX hardware acceleration
> until an open-source driver is available.
>
> Thus in fido I had added opengl to DISTRO_FEATURES_remove
> This worked with webkitgtk 1.x
>
> The webkitgtk 2.x recipe  also specifies opengl as optional.
> However it depends on gtk+3 which depends on libepoxy
> which requires virtual/egl.
>
> Is this an oversight??
>
> Is it possible to build webkit 2.x without opengl??
>

You can't builf GTK+3 without OpenGL right now, so you'll have to add
opengl to DISTRO_FEATURES and live with having mesa installed.

I'm hoping that someone contributes a "null" backend to libepoxy so we can
build GTK+3 without OpenGL in the future, but nobody has done that yet.

Ross
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