Bug#1146728: webkit2gtk: FTBFS on hppa - runs out of memory linking

[John David Anglin]

Source: webkit2gtk
Version: 2.52.6-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-hppa at lists.debian.org
User: debian-hppa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: hppa

Dear Maintainer,

The webkit2gtk package fails to build on hppa.  Unfortunately, the
log file is too big to upload.  So, one can only see that GNU ld runs
out of memory in manual builds.

I had a successful build by changing g1 to g0:

dave at mx3210:~/debian/webkit2gtk/webkit2gtk-2.52.6/debian$ cat rules.diff        --- rules.save  2026-08-26 18:09:25.979296233 -0400
+++ rules       2026-08-26 18:10:27.231723893 -0400
@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@
 # EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGUMENTS += -DENABLE_SWIFT_DEMO_URI_SCHEME=ON

 # The debug packages produced by webkit are huge and cause problems in
-# most buildds. Use -g1 in all architectures to make them smaller.
-CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS:-g=-g1)
-CXXFLAGS := $(CXXFLAGS:-g=-g1)
+# most buildds. Use -g0 in all architectures to make them smaller.
+CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS:-g=-g0)
+CXXFLAGS := $(CXXFLAGS:-g=-g0)

 # https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949621
 LDFLAGS += -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads

Hopefully, this hack can be added for hppa.

Regards,
Dave Anglin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: hppa (parisc64)

Kernel: Linux 6.18.46-dirty (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)