Bug 794250

Summary:	dev-lang/spidermonkey - Please provide binary package
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Bernd H. <berndheinze69>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	ionen
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Bernd H. 2021-06-05 08:57:57 UTC

Spidermonkey is required for essential packages like polkit or Gnome/Cinnamon. However the compilation of spidermonkey has very high requirements on the system, which have even more increased with the version bump from spidermonkey 68 to 78: At least 6400MB of hard disk for spidermonkey 78 and very high ram usage due to rust.

Therefore: Please consider providing a binary package, otherwise the usage of Gentoo on older systems with limited hardware resources will be unfeasible.

Comment 1 Cănărău Constantin 2021-06-05 21:25:52 UTC

Is is not a official solution, but spidermonkey can be replaced by duktape. It has a much lower compile requirements.
See bug #734326.

Comment 2 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2021-06-06 12:34:06 UTC

I may be wrong, but unlike firefox-bin I don't think mozilla distributes a usable pre-built libmozjs. There are very few cases where *-bin packages are built by Gentoo at the moment and it's upstream's binaries.