Bug#1020642: webkit2gtk: FTBFS on mipsel: virtual memory exhausted

[Alberto Garcia]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 10:03:15AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 7:42 PM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> > webkit2gtk repeatedly failed to compile on the mipsel buildds:
> 
> Here is the trick I used on those arches for openvdb:
> 
> [...]
> # Disable optimization on mipsel because the compiler is running out of memory
> # see #847752 / #879636
> ifneq (,$(filter $(DEB_BUILD_ARCH), armel armhf i386 mipsel hppa
> riscv64 sh4 x32))
>   CXXFLAGS:=$(filter-out -O2,$(CXXFLAGS)) --param ggc-min-expand=10 -O1
> endif

At the moment we are using -Os --param ggc-min-expand=10

   https://salsa.debian.org/webkit-team/webkit/-/blob/debian/2.38.0-1/debian/rules#L66

I'll try disabling unified builds.

Berto