Re: WebKitGTK-2.52.5

Rainer Fiebig ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 21.08.26 um 01:04 schrieb Uwe DÃŒffert ([email protected] via
blfs-dev Mailing List):
> Hi all,
> 
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2026, Bruce Dubbs wrote:

[ snip ]

> 
> The webkitgtk developers seem to be well aware of the resource hunger of
> their build process. "Newer" versions have dramatically reduced it since
> February: webkitgtk-2.53.4 source package is only 45MB instead of 63MB
> of webkitgtk-2.52.6 and builds in only 29min instead of 77min on my
> machine.

Now _that_ is interesting.  Maybe the tide is beginning to turn?  A
reduction of roughly 1/3 in size is significant - and telling at the
same time.

What is a bit strange, though, is that webkitgtk-stable.tar.xz is still
63 MB in size [1].

Rainer

[1] https://webkitgtk.org/releases

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