[Buildroot] [git commit branch/2025.11.x] package/wpewebkit: add dependencies to fontconfig & freetype

Thomas Perale thomas.perale at mind.be
Fri Mar 6 12:36:55 UTC 2026


commit: https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/e728b91276d63d667e0d7eae4dad88def4c0c672
branch: https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/tree/2025.11.x

Buildroot commit 2882cf4ae649f7d5e9cee72f84e672328f550845 bumped the
package from 2.44.4 to 2.48.3. This bump includes upstream commit
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/3b54e45d63b84f8ab8d70179184c45be78386622
which was added to wpewebkit 2.45.1:
https://wpewebkit.org/release/wpewebkit-2.45.1.html
"Use Skia by default instead of Cairo for rendering."

The upstream commit includes dependencies to fontconfig & freetype which
were not added to buildroot and cause build errors with this defconfig:

BR2_aarch64=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BOOTLIN=y
BR2_PER_PACKAGE_DIRECTORIES=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_SOFTPIPE=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_OPENGL_EGL=y
BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_OPENGL_ES=y
BR2_PACKAGE_WPEWEBKIT=y
BR2_PACKAGE_WPEWEBKIT_SANDBOX=y
BR2_PACKAGE_WPEWEBKIT_MULTIMEDIA=y
BR2_PACKAGE_WPEWEBKIT_MEDIA_STREAM=y
BR2_PACKAGE_WPEWEBKIT_WEBDRIVER=y

Reported-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o at free.fr>
[https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20251017131035.224739-1-aperez@igalia.com/#3599999]
Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd at kuhls.net>
Acked-by: Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez at igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7e12d9b4810610e75edf7d108b462804b72e519e)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale at mind.be>
---
 package/wpewebkit/Config.in    | 2 ++
 package/wpewebkit/wpewebkit.mk | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package/wpewebkit/Config.in b/package/wpewebkit/Config.in
index 73ba4e6bdf..c8602f1de6 100644
--- a/package/wpewebkit/Config.in
+++ b/package/wpewebkit/Config.in
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_WPEWEBKIT
 	select BR2_HOST_CMAKE_AT_LEAST_3_20
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_CAIRO if BR2_ENDIAN = "BIG"
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_CAIRO_PNG if BR2_ENDIAN = "BIG"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_FONTCONFIG if BR2_ENDIAN = "LITTLE"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_FREETYPE if BR2_ENDIAN = "LITTLE"
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_HARFBUZZ
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ICU
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_JPEG
diff --git a/package/wpewebkit/wpewebkit.mk b/package/wpewebkit/wpewebkit.mk
index 15a2ea93e8..31aba2a0b9 100644
--- a/package/wpewebkit/wpewebkit.mk
+++ b/package/wpewebkit/wpewebkit.mk
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_ENDIAN),"BIG")
 WPEWEBKIT_DEPENDENCIES += cairo
 WPEWEBKIT_CONF_OPTS += -DUSE_SKIA=OFF
 else
+WPEWEBKIT_DEPENDENCIES += fontconfig freetype
 WPEWEBKIT_CONF_OPTS += -DUSE_SKIA=ON
 endif
 


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