| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/networkmanager-iwd.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | networkmanager-iwd |
| Description: | NetworkManager client library with iwd backend |
| Upstream URL: | https://networkmanager.dev/ |
| Licenses: | LGPL-2.1-or-later |
| Conflicts: | libnm |
| Provides: | libnm, libnm.so |
| Submitter: | digitalone |
| Maintainer: | buzo |
| Last Packager: | buzo |
| Votes: | 34 |
| Popularity: | 0.22 |
| First Submitted: | 2019-08-10 10:04 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-12-25 21:02 (UTC) |
@tamarindx: Another thing you can try is taskset 1 makepkg to lock the job to a single CPU core, so ninja won't spawn as many parallel tasks. (taskset is in the util-linux package.) I'd still recommend disabling LTO though, or compilation will take a long time.
By the way this type of discussion is probably better suited for the Arch Linux forums.
@makserver: I've added that line and removes those lines, it is defintely change the compiling proccess from 1000+ to 200+, but that compile proccess still took all my memory and freeze.
@tamarindx: This is probably caused by a combination of the fact that ninja tries to use all available CPU cores and this package uses LTO which is notoriously memory-intensive, so on a system with lots of CPU cores but relatively little memory, you run out of memory.
Try disabling LTO by applying this patch:
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ pkgdesc="Network connection manager and user applications; using iwd backend ins
url="https://networkmanager.dev/"
arch=(x86_64)
license=(LGPL-2.1-or-later)
+options=(!lto)
makedepends=(
audit
bash
@@ -68,9 +69,6 @@ b2sums=('316b1a2e8dfe4d7c0c0fab36f506a8315bf4045f11c5820fb41ea4735dc0a248c04367b
build() {
local meson_options=(
- # build checks this option; injecting just via *FLAGS is broken
- -D b_lto=true
-
# platform
-D dist_version="$pkgver-$pkgrel"
-D session_tracking_consolekit=false
This will speed up the build process by a factor 100 or more without any noticeable downsides.
IMO its a mistake to enable LTO for AUR packages like this. Some basic math: enabling LTO increases build time by 60 minutes of CPU-core time. If LTO increases performance by 10% you'd need to spend 600 minutes of CPU time on NetworkManager to recover the loss. Since there is a new version released every month or so, that means you need to spend 20 minutes of CPU-core time per day just to break even. NetworkManager doesn't run that much under normal circumstances. So enabling LTO is just a big waste of CPU cycles.
Can't even managed to pass the ninja cmake compile proccess... it's eating all my RAM and freeze.
While looking at some code over on github, I noticed that for the past two years there has been this build option: -D config_wifi_backend_default=iwd.
Using this allows building without wpa-supplicant as a build dependency and without installing that override file into /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/30-wifi-backend.conf
Yes, confirmed. As per this comment by heftig:
Thanks to Fabian, as of 2.80.3-1, the development utilities requiring additional dependencies (python, python-packaging, libelf) have been split from glib2 into glib2-devel with proper depends. You may need to add glib2-devel to the makedepends of your packages to get them to build again. At the same time, consider removing python or python-packaging from the makedepends if they were only added to run gdbus-codegen, glib-genmarshal or glib-mkenums.
Well, in this case glib2-devel should probably be added to makedepends instead of glib2?
If anyone else encounters this error during the build:
ERROR: Dependency 'gio-2.0' tool variable 'gdbus_codegen' contains erroneous value: '/usr/bin/gdbus-codegen'
Make sure you have the glib2-devel package installed.
Build-time dependency gio-2.0 found: YES 2.80.3
Program /usr/bin/gdbus-codegen found: NO
NetworkManager/introspection/meson.build:66:14: ERROR: Dependency 'gio-2.0' tool variable 'gdbus_codegen' contains erroneous value: '/usr/bin/gdbus-codegen'
This is a distributor issue -- please report it to your gio-2.0 provider.
Anybody else getting this when trying to build?
Thanks Tomodoro for that research, and sorry for the delay. Turns out that the default location for polkit_agent_helper_1 is already the correct one, so I have omitted it completely.
saubakirov: I have no clue what these error messages mean – I hope this update fixes the build for you, too.
Pinned Comments
digitalone commented on 2019-08-10 10:37 (UTC) (edited on 2019-08-15 09:14 (UTC) by digitalone)
This is a modified package configured to get NetworkManager working exclusively with iwd. Main difference with upstream version is that iwd is required and wpa_supplicant is not needed (so you can uninstall it); iwd seems more reliable on certain wireless cards, so someone could prefer it in place of wpa_supplicant.
It's recommended to enable systemd iwd.service at boot:
systemctl enable iwd.serviceTested with Plasma NM system tray applet (plasma-nm), it's working.
Note that wpa_supplicant is still needed to build the package, but you can uninstall it after the building stage.