[Slackbuilds-users] webkit2gtk build problems

[Ekin Akoglu]

Hi,

I don't think this is a resource issue. My system is with 16 GB RAM and 
8 GB swap space, however, the build fails at 76% with a similar error 
(sorry but I didn't record the exact error so that I could post here).

Best,

Ekin


On 19/09/17 11:59, Habs wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:44:02 +0700
> Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
>
>> On 09/19/2017 04:49 AM, Jason Graham wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Habs <gen-bch at useyouresp.org.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Ive started the build off again after clearing it out.
>>>> As I said, I'm simple minded ;-)  so please forgive me, but it
>>>> puzzles me that the error message is related to space - is that
>>>> disk resource and,or ram resources  ...and more over, why would
>>>> the previous version build fine on the exact same machine _without
>>>> issue_ but not this updated version...what is it doing different I
>>>> wonder (all said rhetorically speaking).
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> The missing header file issue between the two -j values is indeed a
>>> bit baffling (if it were happening with anything other than -j1
>>> that would seem to make more sense).
>>>
>>> With regard to the resource requirements for the build, passing
>>> -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=1 will show how involved building this
>>> package is. There are at least 100 different include directories
>>> used during compilation of each file so header files are scattered
>>> all throughout the source tree. I'd say a similar number of object
>>> files for each library it creates during linking which seem to be
>>> the most demanding with regard to memory.
>> Just a short FYI that i'm able to build webkit2gtk on my
>> Slackware64-14.2 VM with 1 vCPU and 2 GB of RAM with 10 additional
>> swap space (total of 12 GB) using commands that Ponce stated in LQ
>> thread
>>
>> fallocate -l 10G /temp-swap
>> chmod 0600 /temp-swap
>> mkswap /temp-swap
>> swapon /temp-swap
>>
>> webkit2gtk:
>>    MD5SUM check for webkitgtk-2.18.0.tar.xz ... OK
>>    Building package webkit2gtk-2.18.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz ... OK
>>    Installing package webkit2gtk-2.18.0-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz ... OK
>>
>> free -h
>>            total    used    free    shared  buff/cache   available
>> Mem:      1.9G     22M     123M    4K        1.8G        1.6G
>> Swap:     12G      22M     12G
>>
>>
> Can I just have clarified please re:
>
>> fallocate -l 10G /temp-swap
>> chmod 0600 /temp-swap
>> mkswap /temp-swap
>> swapon /temp-swap
> ... that be done without messing up the swap already setup (in fstab)
> i.e. it is a temporary allocation for the build process that can then
> be deallocated etc  (hopefully you get what I mean) ?
>
> The machine I'm using already has 8b swap (I believe) and 4Gb RAM.
> I will track down the thread on LQ and try it out...but it is getting a
> bit silly when a 4GB quad-core machine that is doing nothing else,
> struggles or conks out due to resource issues etc :-)
>
>
> Thank you again all for the input...maybe I am learning something too!
>
> Habs
>
>
>
>
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