Bug#739697: src:dolfin: FTBFS on armhf and mips: virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory

[Johannes Ring]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:35 AM, peter green <plugwash at p10link.net> wrote:
> peter green wrote:
>>
>> I've been doing some tests on this interestingly it failed for me much
>> earlier than on the buildd, maybe different systems give slightly different
>> ammounts of usable address space or something. Anyway reducing optimisation
>> levels etc doesn't seem to help, switching to 4.7 is looking more promising.
>
> 4.7 also ran into memory exhaustion problems (though later in the build
> than 4.8 did), 4.6 was able to build it successfully on armhf. Still
> need to test it on mips.

Thanks for testing. I think the simplest solution would be to disable
CGAL on armhf and mips. CGAL support in DOLFIN is planned to be
removed anyway.

I was going to do an upload now, but ran into this bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739904

Hopefully, this will be fixed soon.

Johannes