Can you please explain the context for this? Why would we want to support
building webkit on such constrained machines? 8g of ram means they can’t
run more than 4-6 gcc processes, so webkit builds will be unbearably slow
anyway.

Alex

On Tue 9. Mar 2021 at 1.00, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:

> Helps builds on machines with less RAM ( 8G )
>
> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <[email protected]>
> ---
>  .../webkitgtk/reduce-memory-overheads.patch   | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
>  meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkitgtk_2.30.5.bb  |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644
> meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkitgtk/reduce-memory-overheads.patch
>
> diff --git
> a/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkitgtk/reduce-memory-overheads.patch
> b/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkitgtk/reduce-memory-overheads.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..0493150a91
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkitgtk/reduce-memory-overheads.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
> +From: Alberto Garcia <[email protected]>
> +Subject: Reduce memory usage when not using the Gold linker
> +Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/949621
> +Forwarded: no
> +
> +Upstream-Status: Pending
> +Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <[email protected]>
> +--- a/Source/cmake/OptionsCommon.cmake
> ++++ b/Source/cmake/OptionsCommon.cmake
> +@@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ option(GCC_OFFLINEASM_SOURCE_MAP
> +   "Produce debug line information for offlineasm-generated code"
> +   ${GCC_OFFLINEASM_SOURCE_MAP_DEFAULT})
> +
> ++# Pass --reduce-memory-overheads to the bfd linker in order to save
> memory
> ++if (NOT USE_LD_GOLD)
> ++    set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS}
> -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads")
> ++    set(CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS}
> -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads")
> ++endif ()
> ++
> + # Enable the usage of OpenMP.
> + #  - At this moment, OpenMP is only used as an alternative implementation
> + #    to native threads for the parallelization of the SVG filters.
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkitgtk_2.30.5.bb
> b/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkitgtk_2.30.5.bb
> index 2928b8e55b..a1dd76ce81 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkitgtk_2.30.5.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkitgtk_2.30.5.bb
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ SRC_URI = "
> https://www.webkitgtk.org/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz \
>             file://0001-Fix-build-with-musl.patch \
>             file://include_array.patch \
>             file://include_xutil.patch \
> +           file://reduce-memory-overheads.patch \
>             "
>  SRC_URI[sha256sum] =
> "7d0dab08e3c5ae07bec80b2822ef42e952765d5724cac86eb23999bfed5a7f1f"
>
> --
> 2.30.1
>
>
> 
>
>
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