Hi all,
I'm trying to compile webkitgtk on a Raspberry PI. I have a slackware arm 14.1.
I'm usign the slackbuild taken from Slackbuilds.org for webkitgtk-2.2.2 but after about 8 hours of compilation I get:
How can I fix?

Are there some ARM repositories for Raspberry?

Maybe this is helpfull!? Have a look at: http://ponce.cc/slackware/slackwarearm-14.0/packages/

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Slackware-ARM and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

well, I interacted with Bart via pm and he reported that building for armv6 he had to add --disable-silent-rules to the configure options, and building for armv5 also --disable-jit.

but he probably will post here himself when building will finish (two days and still going).

I added the --disable-silent-rules and --disable-jit to the configure options and now it is has been 40 hours since I started webkitgtk.SlackBuild. I have a Slackware 14.1 installation on Raspberry Pi:

Can anyone report how long this is expected to take?

from what Bart said to me via PM, not less than 60 hours...

Frankly, while the RPi is fun, it is not adequate for building packages. We miss a good repository of packages for basic apps (like midori) and deps (like webkitgtk).

Right. With those options enabled (--disable-silent-rules and --disable-jit added to slackbuild taken from Slackbuilds.org) took about 60 hours. Raspberry may also not be suitable for compiling packages but if you need a package that is not present in any repository does not have much choice.

Anybody tried this: cross-compiling?
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.../crosstool-ng/

Stuart has some hints on how you might go about a cross compilation environment here.
I had a bad time cross compiling back at the time I was using the Zaurus ... nowdays I tend to try native compilations for ARM but I do that mostly non my AC100 (with a dual core 1Ghz Tegra2 SOC which will probabbly compile things nearly 3 times faster then the Pi).
I'm also considering getting an ODROID-U3 (quad core 1.7Ghz and 2Gb ram) which should get things built pretty quickly.

The problem with webkitgtk is that it will not compile when you compile it with more than one thread. So even on a fast x86 8-core CPU compiling it takes virtually forever, a quad-core ARM CPU will not help that much either. Of course this is only true for some software projects, most of them compile fine multithreaded. Which brought me to an idea: I do not have any experience with emulating ARM on x86, but I know that Qemu is capable of doing that. Can anyone tell me how fast that is? If it is for a single emulated CPU faster than the PI it may be worth to compile webkitgtk in a VM instead, but that solution would, compared with the Pi, really shine for software that can be compiled multithreaded, since you can use more cores in the VM if you have a fast multicore x86 CPU.

The versatile VM is not a performer and is limited to 256Mb ram so I don't think it's going to be any faster then the Pi.

Well if each core is running at 1.7Ghx then the cpu bound part con compilation will be more then twice as fast as the 700Mhz Pi even if you are not doing multijob compilation.
Also the ODROID-U3 can run off e-mmc which is supposed to be some 10 times faster then SDHC and the 2Gb ram will also help ... but I'd not buy one for compiling just one package

Did you have a look here: could you not be happy with version 1.8.3 ?

For x86 slackware there are a lot of places where you can get most packages you need but for ARM there are not many. Maybe we should team up and find a place to host the stuff we are building so that others may benefit.

I'm trying to compile it on SARPi-current. It says: ar: `x' cannot be used on thin archives.

I suggest you open a new thread to address this. It is not the same issue as described above and slackwarearm-current is a much different beast than 14.1.