[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#724922: Bug#724922: geda-gaf: FTBFS: dh_auto_test fork bombs

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:44:38PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> It appears that 'make check' causes about 32k make processes to be
> spawned, then they're all reaped, then they're spawned again, and reaped
> again... then the tests are run.  I haven't figured out what's causing
> this yet, but just leaving the build alone long enough will cause it to
> complete on any machine that doesn't doesn't exhaust resources trying to
> fork that many make processes twice in a row.
> 
> My hack-around to allow geda-gaf to promote to testing is going to be to
> disable running the test suite on armel and armhf.  But that's clearly
> not a real solution, so I'll leave this bug open until one of us has
> time to figure out what's going on and fix it for real...

It seems that the last upload (1:1.8.2-2) killed at least 4
buildds.  This includes amd64 (brahms), armhf (hoiby),
armel (alwyn, ancina).  I understand that some of them are
still down because of it.


Kurt