[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] webkit-gtk: fix 'Memory exhausted' error

[Khem Raj]

On Jul 22, 2013, at 1:22 AM, André Draszik <andre.draszik at linaro.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Instead of penalising everybody, would it be possible to make this
> change dependent on the build machine (ram + swap)? Or to only add
> -Wl,--no-keep-memory if the build failed without it?

penalty is not as much when you do parallel builds. However it will be good
to measure how much extra built time is needed when this options is active.
if its regressing the build time considerably then we need to make a choice.


> 
> Not sure if it would make any difference, but do you see this only with
> full debug enabled (-ggdb)? If yes, can the debug flags be changed, or
> that linker flag only be added, if full debug is enabled?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andre'
> 
> On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:51 +0800, Kai Kang wrote:
>> Build webkit-gtk occupies lot of memory and fails on some host:
>> | ...tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/libexec/x86_64-wrs-linux/gcc/x86_64-wrs-linux/4.8.1/ld:
>> failed to set dynamic section sizes: Memory exhausted
>> | collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> | make[1]: *** [libwebkitgtk-1.0.la] Error 1
>> 
>> Add ld option to fix it.
>> 
>> Refer to:
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.opendarwin.webkit.devel/20078
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Kai Kang <kai.kang at windriver.com>
>> ---
>> meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb | 2 ++
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb
>> index 5691d3f..90625a3 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb
>> @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ CPPFLAGS_append_powerpc = " -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/pango-1.0 \
>> 
>> EXTRA_AUTORECONF = " -I Source/autotools "
>> 
>> +# Fix compile error: "ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Memory exhausted"
>> +LDFLAGS += " -Wl,--no-keep-memory"
>> 
>> #| ./Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/HandleTypes.h: In static member function 'static T* JSC::HandleTypes<T>::getFromSlot(JSC::HandleSlot) [with T = JSC::Structure, JSC::HandleTypes<T>::ExternalType = JSC::Structure*, JSC::HandleSlot = JSC::JSValue*]':
>> #| ./Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/Handle.h:141:79:   instantiated from 'JSC::Handle<T>::ExternalType JSC::Handle<T>::get() const [with T = JSC::Structure, JSC::Handle<T>::ExternalType = JSC::Structure*]'
> 
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