Self-building of matrix-client-schildichat fails: path to webpack.config.js cannot be specified

[luixxiul]

Playbook Configuration:

My vars.yml file looks like this:

matrix_client_schildichat_container_image_self_build: true
matrix_client_schildichat_container_image_self_build_repo: "https://github.com/SchildiChat/schildichat-desktop.git"
# Controls whether to patch webpack.config.js when self-building, so that building can pass on low-memory systems (< 4 GB RAM):
# - https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/1357
# - https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/19544
matrix_client_schildichat_container_image_self_build_low_memory_system_patch_enabled: "{{ ansible_memtotal_mb < 4096 }}"

matrix_client_schildichat_version: v1.11.86-sc.0.test.0

matrix_client_schildichat_data_path: "{{ matrix_base_data_path }}/client-schildichat"
matrix_client_schildichat_docker_src_files_path: "{{ matrix_client_schildichat_data_path }}/docker-src"

It was specified following roles/custom/matrix-client-element/defaults/main.yml as an example.

v1.11.86-sc.0.test.0 was released here: https://github.com/SchildiChat/schildichat-desktop/releases/tag/v1.11.86-sc.0.test.0

Matrix Server:

• OS: Ubuntu 21.04
• Architecture: amd64

Ansible:

Problem description:

I tried to self-build SchildiChat Web client based on the latest pre-release to try it out.

TASK [custom/matrix-client-schildichat : Patch webpack.config.js to support building on low-memory (<4G RAM) devices] ***
fatal: [matrix.progressiv.dev]: FAILED! => changed=false 
  msg: Destination /matrix/client-schildichat/docker-src/webpack.config.js does not exist !
  rc: 257

With the error message I changed matrix_client_schildichat_docker_src_files_path to {{ matrix_client_schildichat_data_path }}/docker-src/element-web (where webpack.config.js should exist) and ran the setup command, but it did not find /matrix/client-schildichat/docker-src/element-web/webpack.config.js because the file moved to /matrix/client-schildichat/docker-src/element-web/element-web/webpack.config.js for a reason which I do not know.

So I changed matrix_client_schildichat_docker_src_files_path to {{ matrix_client_schildichat_data_path }}/docker-src/element-web/element-web and ran the setup command again, and it failed again with the error message as below:

TASK [custom/matrix-client-schildichat : Patch webpack.config.js to support building on low-memory (<4G RAM) devices] ***
fatal: [matrix.progressiv.dev]: FAILED! => changed=false 
  msg: Destination /matrix/client-schildichat/docker-src/element-web/element-web/webpack.config.js does not exist !
  rc: 257

Any pointer to proceed with self-building would be appreciated.

Client (please complete the following information): irrelevant

Additional context
Since the repository structure of https://github.com/SchildiChat/schildichat-desktop was greatly changed, the role might need update as well, maybe?

[spantaleev]

In f19f3be I've pushed some obvious fixes.

I have also adjusted the path to the webpack.config.js file (though it was forgotten to be mentioned in the commit message).

As the commit message says, this does not result in a fixed self-building feature due to many other issues.

Fixing it will require some more work. An alternative may be to remove the self-building feature from the Schildichat role. It probably never really worked to begin with.

I also wonder if the element-web self-building feature works well still. Maybe it should be re-tested just in case and improved upon a bit.

[luixxiul]

Thanks for checking! I tried to self-build Element Web, and it failed as you expected…

Since I am not sure what is sensitive info or not, I'll send you log via Matrix → Sent.