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

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

On Sun, 18 Oct 2026, John D. Baker wrote:

> Restarting with webkit-gtk41's WRKOBJDIR on physical disk, it eventually
> stops saying virtual memory exhausted, even with MAKE_JOBS=1 and 26GB
> of swap (16GB in swap partition wd0b and 2GB+8GB in swap files).

Enlarging the on-disk swap file to 16GB doesn't help.  Running a plain
GENERIC kernel instead of a PAE-enabled kernel doesn't help.  Running
i386 distribution on amd64 hardware, the build always stops on the
same file:

[...]
[ 80%] Built target ANGLEWebGLHeaders
[ 80%] Built target ANGLE-webgl-headers
[ 80%] Building CXX object Source/WebCore/CMakeFiles/WebCore.dir/__/__/WebCore/DerivedSources/unified-sources/UnifiedSource-3a52ce78-41.cpp.o
virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
gmake[2]: *** [Source/WebCore/CMakeFiles/WebCore.dir/build.make:4345: Source/WebCore/CMakeFiles/WebCore.dir/__/__/WebCore/DerivedSources/unified-sources/UnifiedSource-3a52ce78-41.cpp.o] Error 1
gmake[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1646: Source/WebCore/CMakeFiles/WebCore.dir/all] Error 2
gmake: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2
*** Error code 2

Stop.
make[1]: stopped making "all" in /x/pkgsrc/www/webkit-gtk41
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped making "all" in /x/pkgsrc/www/webkit-gtk41



$ swapctl -lh
Device      Size     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
/dev/wd0b    16G      16M      16G     0%    0
/d0/swap     16G       0B      16G     0%    1
/swap       2.0G       0B     2.0G     0%    2
Total        34G      16M      34G     0%


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