BeerSmith2 is linked to an very outdated libwebkitgtk

brendanhoran said:

Hi,

Thanks for putting in effort to nativity support Linux!

However it seems BeerSmith is built using a very old libwebkitgtk.

Code:

$ ldd beersmith2| grep libwebkit
	libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fb60a576000)

A lot of distributions no longer ship libwebkitgtk-1. (Centos 7 included)

Attempting to trick the system and load the libwebkit2 as libwebkit-1  library will cause BeerSmith to segfault (expected)

Code:

$ ./beersmith2 

(beersmith2:6197): Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported
[1]    6197 trace trap (core dumped)  ./beersmith2

It also seems you may still be doing build time linking to GTK-2 as well ? (unsure)
Would be a good idea to start the process to migrate to GTK3 if that is the case.

Simply asking users to install a old un-supported library is not really a solution.
For some distributions Gentoo and Manjaro for example, its impossible to install libwebkitgtk-1 via the supported package managers.

Centos may provide  libwebkitgtk-1 package via EPEL, but I am unsure.
Untested, but i assume your .spec will also fail on Centos 7.
Or create a RPM that will segfault as well.

Others have this issue with BeerSmith :
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,16883.0.html

I would love to give the application a go, but this prevents me using it.

Thanks

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brendanhoran said:

Thanks for the reply Ck27.

I doubt BeerSmith would release the source code. Understandably.
So there is little I or others can do until a new version is released.

One possible horrible work around is to build all the dependency's locally and LD_PRELOAD them.
I am not a fan of that for many reasons.

I guess I will just keep an eye out for the new version.

thanks

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