[Debichem-devel] Bug#921784: Bug#921784: gromacs: FTBFS (ld returned 1 exit status)

[Nicholas Breen]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 05:08:54PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> After some tests, I believe the most probably reason for the failure I
> got was lack of disk space. Sorry for the false positive, I usually
> measure how much disk space is required and only try in a machine
> which has enough. Because this was a new upstream release, I was still
> using the disk estimation from the previous version.

The disk space requirements have indeed gone up enormously over time!
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=gromacs&arch=amd64

> I think there is still a problem here: Why is there not any "disk full"
> message anywhere? Why just "ld returned 1 exit status"? Should not
> also say the reason, like any other compiler usually does?
> 
> Perhaps this should be reassigned to whatever package contains the
> "mpicxx.openmpi" command?

It's from openmpi-bin, but it's just a wrapper around g++ that sets
appropriate flags, and should not be interfering with any output.  I
also can't reproduce that failure, by creating a link failure at that
specific point (setting it to link against a nonexistent library) -- the
ld error message appears as normal, passed through mpicxx.openmpi.
Might be something specific to 100% disk usage, I'll experiment further.




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Nicholas Breen
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