Bug#950433: linbox FTBFS on mipsel, oom while building tests.

[peter green]

Package: linbox
Version: 1.6.3-1
Severity: serious

Since I was looking at the linbox failure on armhf, I figured i'd have a look at the mipsel one too. Based on past experiences with other packages, I was expecting it to also be related to alignment issues.

However I was wrong! It seems it is failing with an out of memory error, while trying to build one of the tests. What is strange is it seems to be failing after allocating only a relatively small amount of memory. I'm not sure if this is some mipsel weirdness or just as not correctly reporting how much memory it has allocated.

I suspect the best course of action is to disable building or running the test in question on mipsel.

Thoughts?