RFR: 8262276: Debug build of WebKit fails

[Arun Joseph]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 14:55:59 GMT, PrimosK <github.com+1519324+PrimosK at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> when passing `--info` to gradle, the build succeeds. Without passing `--info` it fails. I'll do more testing later.
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>> Interesting. I don't see this problem. I am able to build with or without `--info`. I am also now (with this patch) able to build with or without `-PCONF=DebugNative`.
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>> As mentioned earlier, some of the unit tests fail to run in debug mode. Arun will look into these failures.
>
> I think this is actually a lack of physical memory. I was doing tests inside Windows Sandbox which has 4GB of memory by default.
> 
> After repeating the build procedure inside VM with 16GB of memory the build succeeded.
> 
> Side question - I see there was:
> `C:\jfx\build\modular-sdk\modules_libs\javafx.web\jfxwebkit.dll`
> produced but I don't see any PDB files (debugging and project state information) despite `CONF = DebugNative` is present. Am I missing something?

The PDB files are located in `modules\javafx.web\build\win\Debug\bin\jfxwebkit.pdb`. At present, they are not copied to sdk. This bug (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8263259) is created to fix the same.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/417