Open WebOS on Fedora 17

The Open WebOS team is hard at work. As soon as I finished my post to build OpenWebOS on Fedora 16, they had already updated the build script to include more items, particularly the web browser. The browser required libraries that were only found in Fedora 17.

I had been looking for an excuse to update to Fedora 17, and now I found one.

Unfortunatly they aren’t prepared for a bleeding edge distribution like Fedora. The library pbnjson that they want to build, doesn’t like the yajl version 2.0.4. Fedora 16, and all of the supported Ubuntu versions, have yajl 1.0.x. And this library builds just fine with all the 1.x version.

So, to make a long story short, I’m working on putting things into rpm’s, so that I can build these packages on my terms. It will take me longer than using their script, but I will have more control, and it will be more reproduceable.

So far, I am using the system cmake, and I have made the cmake-modules-webos rpm.

cmake-modules-webos-0.9-1.fc17.src.rpm
cmake-modules-webos-0.9-1.fc17.noarch.rpm

As I work my way through each module, I’ll see if I can just use the system version instead of the Open WebOS version. Hopefully that will make things more system independant.