Bug 62543 – [GTK] [Stable] webkit-gtk-1.4.1: make argument list is too long

• Component: New Bugs
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Pacho Ramos]

Created attachment 96958 [details]
environment

For a long time some users are hitting this problem downstream at:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300867

make -j3 XDG_DATA_HOME=/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.4.1-r200/temp/.local 
echo WTF_USE_NATIVE_GTK_MAIN_FRAME_SCROLLBAR=1 ENABLE_CHANNEL_MESSAGING=1 ENABLE_METER_TAG=1 ENABLE_PROGRESS_TAG=1 ENABLE_JAVASCRIPT_DEBUGGER=1 ENABLE_OFFLINE_WEB_APPLICATIONS=1 ENABLE_DATABASE=1 ENABLE_DATALIST=1 ENABLE_EVENTSOURCE=1 ENABLE_DOM_STORAGE=1 ENABLE_VIDEO=1 ENABLE_FULLSCREEN_API=1 ENABLE_XPATH=1 ENABLE_XSLT=1 ENABLE_WORKERS=1 ENABLE_SHARED_WORKERS=1 ENABLE_FILTERS=1 ENABLE_BLOB=1
make: execvp: echo: Argument list too long
make: *** [DerivedSources/webkit/WebKitDOMCSSRule.h] Error 127

Thanks for your help

[Pacho Ramos]

Created attachment 96959 [details]
build.log

[Philippe Normand]

You need a patched Make: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.make.bugs/4219

[Pacho Ramos]

This is still failing even with patched make:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300867#c80

[Philippe Normand]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This is still failing even with patched make:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300867#c80

The discussion in that downstream bug is a bit confusing, hard to follow. :(
Do you get some progress in the build after applying the suggestion of comment 15 of that bug?

[Martin Robinson]

*** Bug 83556 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Martin Robinson]

*** Bug 76798 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[jaybhaskar]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Created an attachment (id=96958) [details]
> environment
> 
> For a long time some users are hitting this problem downstream at:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300867
> 
> make -j3 XDG_DATA_HOME=/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.4.1-r200/temp/.local 
> echo WTF_USE_NATIVE_GTK_MAIN_FRAME_SCROLLBAR=1 ENABLE_CHANNEL_MESSAGING=1 ENABLE_METER_TAG=1 ENABLE_PROGRESS_TAG=1 ENABLE_JAVASCRIPT_DEBUGGER=1 ENABLE_OFFLINE_WEB_APPLICATIONS=1 ENABLE_DATABASE=1 ENABLE_DATALIST=1 ENABLE_EVENTSOURCE=1 ENABLE_DOM_STORAGE=1 ENABLE_VIDEO=1 ENABLE_FULLSCREEN_API=1 ENABLE_XPATH=1 ENABLE_XSLT=1 ENABLE_WORKERS=1 ENABLE_SHARED_WORKERS=1 ENABLE_FILTERS=1 ENABLE_BLOB=1
> make: execvp: echo: Argument list too long
> make: *** [DerivedSources/webkit/WebKitDOMCSSRule.h] Error 127
> 
> Thanks for your help

This is problem from os. by default maximum argument size is hard coded in linux source. i have solved this issue by making changes in linux source limits.h.
ARG_MAX like macro. increase this value. make kernel and install it.

[Pacho Ramos]

Is not possible to set ARG_MAX without needing to change the source?

[jaybhaskar]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Is not possible to set ARG_MAX without needing to change the source?

no, it is not possible to change

[Paul Alesius]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Is not possible to set ARG_MAX without needing to change the source?

Yes, with ulimit -s, you can see it being increased on getconf ARG_MAX.


The problem is that even after increasing this to ulimit -s unlimited, I still get:

make[1]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long
make[1]: *** [libWebCore.la] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/build/shell/src/webkit-1.9.6'

## Webkit version: 1.9.6

[Martin Robinson]

CMake fixes all these issues.