Bug#917869: python-escript FTBFS on armhf, mips, mipsel and mips64el

[peter green]

Package: python-escript
Version: 5.2-4
Severity: serious

The most recent upload of python-escript failed to build on armhf, mipsel, mips64el and mips. All seemed to fail while linking a C++ library.

g++ -o debian/tmp2/posix/weipa/src/libescriptreader.so -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -fopenmp -shared debian/tmp2/posix/weipa/src/reader_DataVar.os debian/tmp2/posix/weipa/src/reader_EscriptDataset.os debian/tmp2/posix/weipa/src/reader_FinleyDomain.os debian/tmp2/posix/weipa/src/reader_FinleyElements.os debian/tmp2/posix/weipa/src/reader_FinleyNodes.os -Ldebian/stage2/lib -L/usr/lib/python2.7/config-arm-linux-gnueabihf -L/usr/lib -ldudley -lfinley -lpaso -lescript -lnetcdf_c++4 -lsiloh5 -lpython2.7 -lboost_python27

The armhf and mips64el failures were timeouts, while the mips and mipsel builds ran out of virtual memory.

It may be worth playing with the settings, the first thing to try is probably -Wl,-no-keep-memory , if that fails it may be worth trying optimising for size ( -Os instead of -O2 )