[webkit-gtk] Hangs while "Scanning dependencies for target"

[Leonardo Taccari]

Hello Martin, Franz and the entire webkit-gtk community,

Martin Robinson writes:
> In my experience, 8GB of RAM is the minimum amount of RAM necessary to
> build WebKitGTK+. I cannot be sure if that is your problem though.
I usually build it on my laptop (Intel i7 with just 4GB of RAM) and both
webkit-gtk-2.4.8 and webkit-gtk-2.8.0 usually swaps *only* during the
linking phase on NetBSD-current and pkgsrc-current (using gcc-4.8.4).
It usually takes ~3-4 hours.

During the update to webkit-2.4.* in pkgsrc I build it on a PC that I
found in the garbage, an old Celeron 2.4Ghz with 768MB of RAM, NetBSD
6.1.5 and pkgsrc-2014Q3 IIRC and I succesfully able to do that (yes,
I am a bit crazy but at that time I had not anything better than
that ;))... It took ~48 hours but it successfully built and installed
also on that machine[0]. :)


Ciao,
L.


[0]: ...once installed I disable javascript in order to be completely
     usable.