Considering ExcludeArch: %{ix86} for webkit2gtk3 (take two)

[Michael Catanzaro]

Hi,

I have the following i686-only WebKitGTK build failure in rawhide [1]:

ninja: build stopped: stat(lib/libWebCoreGTK.a): Value too large for 
defined data type.

Based on [2], I assume the problem is that either ar or ranlib is not 
built with large file support. Does this seem correct? Should I report 
a bug against our binutils package?

It reminds me of [3], a very similar bug that we resolved years ago by 
switching from -g to -g1. For now, I'll test dropping down to -g0, but 
even this will be a temporary solution ta best. (I don't know if that 
will work or not yet. Will try now.)

Michael

P.S. Take one was [4], and the disadvantage of using ExcludeArch is it 
would require modifying the spec of every dependent package to also use 
ExcludeArch. I prefer that to delaying WebKitGTK updates over this, 
though.

[1] 
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/5667/82345667/build.log
[2] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Value-too-l...
[3] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140176
[4] 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].o...

[Florian Weimer]

* Michael Catanzaro:

>  I have the following i686-only WebKitGTK build failure in rawhide
> [1]:
>
>  ninja: build stopped: stat(lib/libWebCoreGTK.a): Value too large for
>  defined data type.
>
>  Based on [2], I assume the problem is that either ar or ranlib is not
>  built with large file support. Does this seem correct? Should I report 
>  a bug against our binutils package? 
Yes, I guess building binutils with 64-bit off_t makes sense.

Thanks,
Florian

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Thu, Feb 3 2022 at 02:06:19 PM -0600, Michael Catanzaro 
<mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org&gt; wrote:
>  For now, I'll test dropping down to -g0, but even this will be a
>
>  temporary solution ta best. (I don't know if that will work or not 
>  yet. Will try now.) 
BTW this seems to have worked. I had to drop the debuginfo packages 
too, but that shouldn't hurt anything because nobody is really going to 
use this on i686....