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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-60987

Missing gperf should yield better error message

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    • 5.9
    • WebEngine
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    • Linux Mint 18.1

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      When you compile qt from source without having gperf installed, it still starts to compile WebEngine, but then fails inside WebKits CSS name generator, due to a FileNotFound exception in Python.

      Installing gperf was more a lucky guess on my side after that vague error message (I saw, that parameter --gperf was passed to the script and guessed that gperf might be the file it couldn't find).

      We should test gperf presence at configure time and fail with a better error message if it is missing.

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. QTBUG-52805 Check early on for bison, flex, gperf existence

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              viengelm Viktor Engelmann
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