Changes between Version 29 and Version 30 of WebKitGTK/StartHacking


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Sep 9, 2013 1:38:07 AM (11 years ago)
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mario@webkit.org
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     418=== Working behind a proxy ===
     419
     420Sometimes you are in a resricted environment and you need your WebKit development environment to work properly behind a proxy, so things like `run-launcher --gtk http://www.webkit.org` will actually work, instead of getting stuck trying to load stuff using the wrong "no proxy" settings.
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     422In order to do that, you would need to build `dconf` inside the jhbuild environment, so glib-networking will be able read your configuration through GSettings properly, instead of just reading the default values from the GSettings memory backend that would be in use otherwise.
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     424So, to do that, just do the following:
     425{{{
     426./Tools/jhbuild/jhbuild-wrapper --gtk build dconf
     427}}}
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     429After that, every single thing you do inside the `jhbuild` (e.g. using the `run-launcher` script) should properly pick up your proxy settings and work.