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

[Franz Fellner]

It seams my mail got stuck in the moderation queue. I had attached: 
DependInfo.cmake files (compresse) which made my mail 20 too large.: 

Here is the mail without attachments:
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Thx for your response, Martin.

As I tried to say it is just the cmake process running. No compilation
involved. There is only very little RAM usage, but cmake occupies one
CPU-core (maxes out at 100%, but still not enough to make the fans spin up). 

So I don't think this specific issue is due to RAM limitations.
I had issues building webkit-gtk in the past. That was solved by using
clang + ld.gold. This works fine with make -j11 + distcc.

Martin Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Since webkit-gtk moved to cmake I have weird hangs while cmake
> > is scanning dependencies.
> > The first (and worst) is target "WebCore". cmake hangs at 100%
> > for 20 (twenty) minutes. A second hang at "WebKit2" takes another
> > 10 minutes. So the huge build (here ~1 to 1.5 hours, depends if I
> > have to use the laptop or if I can shut down everthing so
> > resources are freed - this is already with distcc) get's extended
> > by another 30 minutes. It is just consuming CPU, no Disc Access
> > or large RAM usage (stays constant at ~50MB for the cmake process)
> > It does not change with different cmake versions (latest try with
> > cmake-3.1.0).
> >
> > So: is this behaviour normal?
> > If not which information do you need?
> >
> > My system is a low/mid range thinkpad, intel i3 sandy bridge,
> > ~4GB RAM + another 4GB SWAP, 5200 RPM HDD.
> 
> 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.
> 
> --Martin