[webkit-dev] Help with GTK build

[Alejandro G. Castro]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 02:38:51AM -0800, Adam Barth wrote:
> Hi GTK folks,
> 
> As we've been discussing, I moved WebCore this evening.  The GTK bot
> has a mysterious build error that I'm hoping you can help me with:
> 
> make  all-am
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/slave/webkitgtk/gtk-linux-64-debug/build/WebKitBuild/Debug'
> /bin/mkdir -p ./.deps/DerivedSources
> make[1]: execvp: /bin/bash: Argument list too long
> make[1]: *** [libwebkitgtk-1.0.la] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/slave/webkitgtk/gtk-linux-64-debug/build/WebKitBuild/Debug'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> http://build.webkit.org/builders/GTK%20Linux%2064-bit%20Debug/builds/17896/steps/compile-webkit/logs/stdio
> 
> I take this to mean that adding "Source" to a bunch of the path names
> caused some build command to exceed the allowable length of a command
> line argument?  What's the best way to fix this issue?
> 

Yeah, it is the length, we already had that issue when doing "make
dist". It looks like adding "Source" is adding enough characters to
cause the same problem:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.make.bugs/4219

I'm afraid we have to patch the make we are using in the bots. I'll try
to check it.

br