Bug#726009: Yade requires too much RAM for building

[peter green]

peter green wrote:
>
> ia64/powerpc/s390x/sparc: unrecognized command line option 
> '-ftrack-macro-expansion=0'
> This appears to be caused by the fact those architectures still have 
> gcc-4.6 as their default compiler. I see two possible fixes for this, 
> one is to check the gcc version and only pass that option when it is 
> high enough. The other is to force use of a gcc version recent enough 
> to support it.
IF you are going to force use of a specific gcc version then you need to 
build-depend on it.
>
> kfreebsd-i386: ran out of "memory" (probablly really address space) 
> during linking, passing -no-keep-memory to the linker may help
Interestingly kfreebsd-i386 succeeded with the most recent upload but 
kfreebsd-amd64 failed while linking (killed by the OOM killer by the 
looks of things) :/