Bug#598956: On kfreebsd going into web pane segfaults Liferea.

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:27:29AM +0100, Michael Dorrington wrote:
>...
> > If yes, build WebKit with JIT compilation disabled and
> > check whether that fixes the problem.
> 
> Unfortunately, webkit fails to build for me on kfreebsd, even unmodified
> (and webkit takes a long time to build!):
> 
>   CXXLD  libwebkit-1.0.la
> collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed]
> make[2]: *** [libwebkit-1.0.la] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/webkit-1.2.4/build'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/webkit-1.2.4/build'
> make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

My first guess would be that you ran out of memory, or have the memory 
for a process limited.

> So I can't test this patch in the built package:
> 
> --- webkit-1.2.4/debian/rules	2010-09-03 22:29:30.000000000 +0100
> +++ webkit-1.2.4-disablejit/debian/rules	2010-10-03 15:58:35.000000000 +0100
> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
>  		--host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) \
>  		--build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \
>  		--enable-gtk-doc \
> +		--disable-jit \
> 		--enable-introspection
>...

Yes, that's what should be tested.

> Cheers,
> Mike.

cu
Adrian

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