[Debichem-devel] Bug#850456: elpa: FTBFS (not enough slots available)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:elpa
Version: 2016.05.001-2
Severity: serious

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
but it failed:

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[...]
 debian/rules build-arch
dh build-arch
   dh_testdir -a
   dh_update_autotools_config -a
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_configure
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
dh_auto_configure -- --disable-silent-rules
	./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=\${prefix}/include --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --libexecdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

[... snipped ...]

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There are not enough slots available in the system to satisfy the 2 slots
that were requested by the application:
  ./elpa1_test_complex_c_version

Either request fewer slots for your application, or make more slots available
for use.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
FAIL elpa1_test_complex_c_version.sh (exit status: 1)

FAIL: elpa2_test_real_c_version.sh
==================================

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are not enough slots available in the system to satisfy the 2 slots
that were requested by the application:
  ./elpa2_test_real_c_version

Either request fewer slots for your application, or make more slots available
for use.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
FAIL elpa2_test_real_c_version.sh (exit status: 1)

FAIL: elpa2_test_complex_c_version.sh
=====================================

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are not enough slots available in the system to satisfy the 2 slots
that were requested by the application:
  ./elpa2_test_complex_c_version

Either request fewer slots for your application, or make more slots available
for use.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
FAIL elpa2_test_complex_c_version.sh (exit status: 1)

grep Total.time *.log
debian/rules:28: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:21: recipe for target 'build-arch' failed
make: *** [build-arch] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-arch gave error exit status 2
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This is just how the build ends, not necessarily the relevant part.

I've put several build logs here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/elpa/

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use reassign and affects,
so that this is still visible in the page for this package.

The bug should be reproducible with sbuild on a single CPU virtual machine.

In case it helps, this failure is essentially the same as this one in dune-grid:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850229

Thanks.