The goal is to use old glibc so that it can reach more audience (in
particular, RHEL and CentOS users).
Also, we don't compress the executable (using UPX) so that it can be
inspected with ldd. Bonus: no more decompression overhead, faster
startup.
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=963
Although it is mentioned in http://phantomjs.org/build.html, many people
are not aware this, they compile from source (even if a binary package
is available) and get shocked to realize the build takes ages.
The build script is thus modified to give the initial warning.
Unattended build is still possible, just use --confirm flag.
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=862
Previously, a static build would produce three separate files:
QtWebKit.a, libjscore.a and libwebcore.a. These seem to have
dependencies on each other and this caused the build errors on Linux.
This change means that the sources of jscore and webcore are both built
directly into the QtWebKit.a target. libjscore.a and libwebcore.a are no
longer built. It is then possible to create a static binary on Linux.
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=413
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=599
Squashed commit of the following:
commit 2cdcf8a47567f3c067958383843cccf858af531c
Author: Jon Leighton <j@jonathanleighton.com>
Date: Sat Jul 7 19:37:38 2012 +0100
Make lib-bundling/brandelf optional in deploy/package.sh
This configuration has had some problems and we don't wish to use it in
the official packages.
Enable it with --bundle-libs.
commit 2a2155a4e1f5873aa8624859cead9d66750747f4
Author: Jon Leighton <j@jonathanleighton.com>
Date: Sat Jul 7 19:24:40 2012 +0100
notify user if upx is missing
commit 9656a99df0ff101150276dc88e0127f68041f617
Author: Jon Leighton <j@jonathanleighton.com>
Date: Sat Jul 7 19:23:36 2012 +0100
stripping symbols after upx probably doesn't work, reorder that
commit c5f425dc17069c89e7d2ff274309006c728ffab4
Author: Jon Leighton <j@jonathanleighton.com>
Date: Sat Jul 7 19:17:07 2012 +0100
fix logical fail
Debug mode turns off all optimisations. This make PhantomJS considerably
slower.
Instead, we build in 'release' mode, but generate debugging symbols at
the same time.
This may present some problems analysing crashes, if the optimisations
make that difficult. However, in my testing I was able to get useful
debug output even with optimisations enabled. So we should see how we go
- if it becomes a problem we can produce seperate debug binaries with no
optimisations.
https://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=599
This provides support for compiling the breakpad client into PhantomJS,
and generifies that Linux packaging scripts so that they also apply to
OS X and automate the symbol generation.
Building the Breakpad tool programs seems to be less than
straightforward on OS X, and documentation is poor. We have managed to
produce tools/dump-syms-mac.pro which allows building the dump_syms
program for dumping the debugging symbols. This needed a couple of
modifications to breakpad in order to compile successfully.
We have run out of time to work on making the minidump_stackwalk program
build. However, this is solely a developer tool and so it can wait until
after the 1.6 release before we complete this work.
Testing is welcome!
https://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=576
The script now copies all required shared libraries found via ldd
to the deployment folder.
Furthermore, a run-script is created that runs the phantomjs binary
through the copied build-host's ld-linux.so to ensure all symbols
are properly resolved.
Last but not least, we now include a very slightly modified brandelf.c
from FreeBSD. This version can be compiled on Linux machines and is
used to change the ELF ABI of the binary and libs in the deployment
folder, such that they all use the old SYSV OS ABI for compatibility.
Usage:
$ package-linux-dynamic.sh
$ scp phantomjs-$version.tar.bz2 yourhost
$ ssh yourhost
$ tar -xf phantomjs-$version.tar.bz2
$ ./phantomjs-$version/phantomjs.sh
CC ISSUE: 413 (http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=413)
(proper static build would still be desirable eventually if possible)
Ariya Hidayat
Oleg Pudeyev
Jon Leighton
Tom Stuart & Jon Leighton
Milian Wolff