Bug#928140: pygalmesh: FTBFS on 32-bit architectures: virtual memory exhausted

[Drew Parsons]

On 2019-05-03 16:24, Nico Schlömer wrote:
>>  Do you know how to control it?
> 
> I'd been looking at this once, to no avail. Locally I just use 
> CC=clang++ now.
> 

It's very odd that they make it difficult to deal with.

The offending definition looks like OPT in 
/usr/lib/python3.7/config-3.7m-x86_64-linux-gnu/Makefile

But despite the "helpful" advices on stackoverflow,
   OPT="" /usr/bin/python3 setup.py build
fails to override it.

Drew