Bug#579808: webkit: FTBS on mipsel (buildd on mayer.debian.org: collect2: ld terminated with signal 9)

[Vincent CARON]

Package: webkit
Version: 1.2.0-1
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source

Webkit has failed to build for 5 months on some platforms due to buildd
problems. This prevents many application from migrating to testing (RC
bug AFAIK).

As seen on [1], webkit fails to build on mayer.debian.org (mipsel) and
stops with ld being KILLed (OOM I presume). Webkit seems to be notorious
about heavy memory requirements at link stage...

Maybe the hardware is already under way [2] ?

[1]
https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=webkit&ver=1.2.0-1&arch=mipsel&stamp=1271001075&file=log

[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/04/msg00004.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash