I wouldn't think it's worth bothering; the version of glib that ships
with slackware has to ship with security patches. Why port code to
work with broken code? (of course, glib is broken from the beginning,
but 2.18 has known security vulnerabilities.) I have glib, gtk,
libsoup, and webkit packag
well I guess you have a reason to depend on the bleeding edge webkit but
I run the newest slackware linux (13.0) and that ships with glibc
2.18-something, so I can't compile bleeding edge webkit / libsoup (needs
2.21-something).
I managed to build webkit-r46631 [1] and libsoup-2.27.5 on that box a