bug#47964: webkitgtk-2.32.0 build fails

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Leo Famulari writes:
> I googled your error message:
>
> "No rule to make target 'JavaScriptCore-4.0.gir', needed by 'WebKit2-4.0.gir'.  Stop."
>
> And there are very many results, from many distros, and the answer in
> all cases seems to be "Don't build this package with -j1".
>
> I have to agree with that :) It's weird that a build fails with -j1, but
> this build takes a long time even with many cores.
>
> The upstream bug report:
>
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195251

Thank you for sharing that.

`guix build --no-substitutes --cores=1 --max-jobs=1 webkitgtk`
`sudo guix system --no-substitutes --cores=1 --max-jobs=1 reconfigure configuration.scm`
These two commands fail to build webkitgtk with the error message
reported previously.  The problem being what you have identified (using
one core).

`sudo guix system --no-substitutes reconfigure configuration.scm`
Fails to build webkitgtk because of what looks like an out of memory
issue.  With "oom_reaper" showing up in /var/log/messages.

`sudo guix system --no-substitutes --cores=2 --max-jobs=1 reconfigure configuration.scm`
This command was successfully able to build webkitgtk.