[Debichem-devel] Bug#738137: Bug#738137: libpwiz: FTBFS on mips*: virtual memory exhausted

[Filippo Rusconi]

Greetings, Michael,

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:10:27AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 09:43:54PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 01:13:37AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> >Source: libpwiz
>> >Version: 3.0.4624-7
>> >Severity: serious
>> >
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >your package failed to build on mips and mipsel:
>> >
>> >https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libpwiz
>> >
>> >with
>> >
>> >virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
>> >make[2]: *** [pwiz/data/identdata/IdentData.lo] Error 1
>> >
>> >
>> >Maybe disabling parallel builds on mips* could help.
>>
>> I am planning to put this in debian/rules on top of all the targets:
>>
>> ifeq ("mips-linux-gnu",$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE))
>> .NOTPARALLEL: endif
>>
>> Do you think that this might work? I mean, are the mips systems
>> characterized by this string: "mips-linux-gnu"
>
>I believe one can simulate the answer to this question via
>dpkg-architecture and setting the Debian arch:
>
>$ dpkg-architecture -amips -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE
>dpkg-architecture: warning: specified GNU system type mips-linux-gnu
> does not match gcc system type x86_64-linux-gnu, try setting a correct
> CC environment variable
>mips-linux-gnu
>$ dpkg-architecture -amipsel -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE
>dpkg-architecture: warning: specified GNU system type mipsel-linux-gnu
> does not match gcc system type x86_64-linux-gnu, try setting a correct
> CC environment variable
>mipsel-linux-gnu

That is perfect, then. My assumptions were correct. I'll implement
the conditions...

>So it seems one has to special case both mips and mipsel.
>
>Just to mention, the same issue (virtual memory exhausted: Cannot
>allocate memory) came up in a discussion on #debian-devel the other day
>and people were rather pessimistic that deactivating parallel builds
>would help.  But I guess it is worth a shot.

... now.

Thanks for your help,

Ciao
Filippo 

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