Bug#926935: arpack: FTBFS (does not honor parallel=n in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)

[Ghislain Vaillant]

Le mer. 24 avr. 2019 à 17:02, Santiago Vila <sanvila at unex.es> a écrit :

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 04:47:16PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > Le 24/04/2019 à 16:45, Santiago Vila a écrit :
> > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 04:24:59PM +0200, ghisvail at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Anyone objecting on applying Santiago's patch to src:arpack to fix
> the
> > > > occasionnal FTBFS on single-core builders?
> > > >
> > > > If not, then I am happy to prepare a release.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > > One minor clarification: The failure happens always on single-cpu
> systems,
> > > not just occassionally.
> > >
> > Don't hesitate to forward that upstream if you find a fix
> > https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng
>
> A general fix (i.e. one that upstream accept) would probably involve
> using "nproc" command inside the Makefiles, but then we would have to
> override that anyway to avoid using so many simultaneous jobs if the
> user explicitly ask for less jobs via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
>
> The safe/conservative thing to do would be to use 1 job for the test suite.
>
> I can put an issue in github if you confirm there is not one yet.
>
> Thanks.
>

I did not find one, but glanced very quickly through the issue tracker.

>
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