Re: webkit-gtk41 apparently-infinite build on NetBSD 11

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2026, Robert Bagdan wrote:

> > virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> Try to add to the Makefile:
> UNLIMIT_RESOURCES= virtualsize

Finally got a chance to try this.  It did not help.  As mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost
noted, if the address space is exhausted, adding more swap or unlimiting
virtual size will not help.

I tried to use 'distcc' a long time ago, but even with the most permissive
of interconnections, I couldn't get it to see the "helper" (cross-)
compiler on my build host.

I tried to use pkgsrc cross-build infrastructure a while back, but it
polluted the host package repository with target packages (or maybe
it was the other way around).  In any case, it started rebuilding
existing host packages, so I stopped it.

Pondering the "pkg=" cross-build target in 'build.sh', but it appears
to force modular X11, so that's out as well.

Or, it's time to realise that some things are just not going to run on
non-x86_64 ever again.

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