Bug#1125347: webkit2gtk: Please build with GCC options to avoid OOM issues on 32-bit targets

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 13/01/2026 00:56, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 08:18:23PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 
>> After reading through the ReduceBuildMemoryOverhead article [2] on
>> the Debian wiki, I discovered the option "-no-integrated-cpp" which
>> helps work around the OOM issue above. Together with the "--param
>> ggc-min-expand=10" option, the build suceeds:
> 
> I think that this is a good idea.
> 
>> But since armhf and i386 don't run out of memory, I suggest to use
>> the workaorund on hppa, m68k, powerpc and sh4.
> 
> armhf and i386 don't run out of memory because they are using clang,
> which does not have that problem.
> 
> However we need to stop using clang on armhf because the latest
> version (clang-21) doesn't build webkit (#1124051) and the version
> that we are currently using (clang-19) is going to be removed from
> forky (#1124069).
> 
> So I think that we can start using gcc on armhf and work around the OOM
> problems using these options that you are suggesting.
> 
> Jeremy, Emilio, what do you think?

That sounds reasonable.

Cheers,
Emilio