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

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On Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 12:51 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:

> I have a NetBSD 11 (stable from September 29) box, and am building
> packages with bob.   It's a used 2019 Dell, with 32 GB of RAM and
>   cpu0: "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700 CPU @ 3.00GHz"
> so not the fastest these days but not ancient/slow.
> 
> I do have some non-default mk.conf, and almost entirely that should be
> orthogonal, except that I am using ccache, which helps vastly with the
> repeated not-really-necessary builds that pbulk/bob do.  But, this is
> gcc taking forever, which is not plausibly a ccache issue.   And most of
> 1K packages were fine -- I'm not in general finding local failures that
> work for everyone else.
> 
> While the build is -j4, I see only 2 processes at the moment (that's not
> a bug, depending on make dependencies):
> 
> builder 18013 87.5  0.7  2528604 230424 ?      O     7:50PM 709:41.29 /usr/pkg/gcc14/libexec/gcc/x86_64--netbsd/14.3.0/cc1plus -quiet -I /tmp/work/www/webkit-gtk41/work/webkitgtk-2.54.1/cmake-pkgsrc-build -I /tmp/work/www/webkit-gtk41/work/webkitgtk-2.54.1/
> builder 27580 86.2  0.5  2699716 163780 ?      O     7:51PM 708:49.67 /usr/pkg/gcc14/libexec/gcc/x86_64--netbsd/14.3.0/cc1plus -quiet -I /tmp/work/www/webkit-gtk41/work/webkitgtk-2.54.1/cmake-pkgsrc-build -I /tmp/work/www/webkit-gtk41/work/webkitgtk-2.54.1/
> 
> and bob shows
> 
> [8409/8942] Building CXX object Source/WebCore/CMakeFiles/WebCore.dir/__/__/WebCore/DerivedSources/unified-sources/UnifiedSource-xml-5.cpp.o
> [8410/8942] Building CXX object Source/WebCore/CMakeFiles/WebCore.dir/__/__/WebCore/DerivedSources/unified-sources/UnifiedSource-xml-4.cpp.o
> 
> The build overall has been running 12h.
> I know a lot of these files are slow, but this is nearly 12h slow, not
> the normal kind of webkit maybe tens of minutes slow for one compile.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing problems with webkit-gtk41?

FWIW on my 8GB/4core proxmox guest VM running -current I got:

2.0 MB Thu Oct  1 04:49:39 2026 gvfs-1.60.0nb6.tgz
 55 MB Thu Oct  1 08:47:43 2026 webkit-gtk41-2.54.0nb1.tgz
> 
> 
So it too just four hours to build (these are 'ls -ltr' displayed on the same MAKE_JOBS=4 pkg_rolling-replace, so it does not represent the actual time taken - it was probably around 10-12 hours, but it completed without problems. I do not use currently ccache.