What's the easiest way to get a browser with a specific (older) version of Webkit?

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There's a bug reported on our system. Since I can't see any obvious bugs in the code and the problem occurs on an in-house Webkit-based browser, I suspected the problem could be in Webkit itself. I managed to verify, that the bug is not present in other browsers including a recent version of Epiphany which uses Webkit. I wanted to take things further and reproduce the bug on an older version of Epiphany, but I hit the wall when trying to build from source.



I managed to finally satisfy autogen and get all required dependencies only to get a compilation error from make...sigh...



ephy-web-overview.c:145:25: error: too many arguments to function ‘webkit_dom_dom_token_list_contains’
if (class_list && webkit_dom_dom_token_list_contains (class_list, "removed", NULL))
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkitdom/webkitdom.h:39,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/WebKitWebPage.h:31,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/WebKitWebEditor.h:29,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/webkit-web-extension.h:38,
from ephy-web-overview.h:25,
from ephy-web-overview.c:22:


Is there a decent way to compile older software without your head exploding? Sorry for the noob question :-)







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  • Older software depends on older libraries. You should modify the older source to support newer libs. If you found a bug in webkit, then report it!
    – Ipor Sircer
    Jun 13 at 13:30














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There's a bug reported on our system. Since I can't see any obvious bugs in the code and the problem occurs on an in-house Webkit-based browser, I suspected the problem could be in Webkit itself. I managed to verify, that the bug is not present in other browsers including a recent version of Epiphany which uses Webkit. I wanted to take things further and reproduce the bug on an older version of Epiphany, but I hit the wall when trying to build from source.



I managed to finally satisfy autogen and get all required dependencies only to get a compilation error from make...sigh...



ephy-web-overview.c:145:25: error: too many arguments to function ‘webkit_dom_dom_token_list_contains’
if (class_list && webkit_dom_dom_token_list_contains (class_list, "removed", NULL))
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkitdom/webkitdom.h:39,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/WebKitWebPage.h:31,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/WebKitWebEditor.h:29,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/webkit-web-extension.h:38,
from ephy-web-overview.h:25,
from ephy-web-overview.c:22:


Is there a decent way to compile older software without your head exploding? Sorry for the noob question :-)







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  • Older software depends on older libraries. You should modify the older source to support newer libs. If you found a bug in webkit, then report it!
    – Ipor Sircer
    Jun 13 at 13:30












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There's a bug reported on our system. Since I can't see any obvious bugs in the code and the problem occurs on an in-house Webkit-based browser, I suspected the problem could be in Webkit itself. I managed to verify, that the bug is not present in other browsers including a recent version of Epiphany which uses Webkit. I wanted to take things further and reproduce the bug on an older version of Epiphany, but I hit the wall when trying to build from source.



I managed to finally satisfy autogen and get all required dependencies only to get a compilation error from make...sigh...



ephy-web-overview.c:145:25: error: too many arguments to function ‘webkit_dom_dom_token_list_contains’
if (class_list && webkit_dom_dom_token_list_contains (class_list, "removed", NULL))
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkitdom/webkitdom.h:39,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/WebKitWebPage.h:31,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/WebKitWebEditor.h:29,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/webkit-web-extension.h:38,
from ephy-web-overview.h:25,
from ephy-web-overview.c:22:


Is there a decent way to compile older software without your head exploding? Sorry for the noob question :-)







share|improve this question











There's a bug reported on our system. Since I can't see any obvious bugs in the code and the problem occurs on an in-house Webkit-based browser, I suspected the problem could be in Webkit itself. I managed to verify, that the bug is not present in other browsers including a recent version of Epiphany which uses Webkit. I wanted to take things further and reproduce the bug on an older version of Epiphany, but I hit the wall when trying to build from source.



I managed to finally satisfy autogen and get all required dependencies only to get a compilation error from make...sigh...



ephy-web-overview.c:145:25: error: too many arguments to function ‘webkit_dom_dom_token_list_contains’
if (class_list && webkit_dom_dom_token_list_contains (class_list, "removed", NULL))
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkitdom/webkitdom.h:39,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/WebKitWebPage.h:31,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/WebKitWebEditor.h:29,
from /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/webkit-web-extension.h:38,
from ephy-web-overview.h:25,
from ephy-web-overview.c:22:


Is there a decent way to compile older software without your head exploding? Sorry for the noob question :-)









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  • Older software depends on older libraries. You should modify the older source to support newer libs. If you found a bug in webkit, then report it!
    – Ipor Sircer
    Jun 13 at 13:30
















  • Older software depends on older libraries. You should modify the older source to support newer libs. If you found a bug in webkit, then report it!
    – Ipor Sircer
    Jun 13 at 13:30















Older software depends on older libraries. You should modify the older source to support newer libs. If you found a bug in webkit, then report it!
– Ipor Sircer
Jun 13 at 13:30




Older software depends on older libraries. You should modify the older source to support newer libs. If you found a bug in webkit, then report it!
– Ipor Sircer
Jun 13 at 13:30















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