Bug#598614: neverball: FTBFS on mips (killed after 300 minutes of inactivity)

[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl]

Hi!

Am 30.09.2010 15:12, schrieb Julien Cristau:
> Package: neverball
> Version: 1.5.4-2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source
> 
> See
> https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=neverball&arch=mips&ver=1.5.4-2%2Bb1&stamp=1284489668&file=log&as=raw
>> [...]
>> ./mapc data/map-fwp/swarm.map data
>> data/map-fwp/swarm.sol (194/$130)
>>   mtrl  vert  edge  side  texc  geom  lump  path  node  body
>>     15  1948  2742   771  2061  5104   334    36   107    45
>>   item  goal  view  jump  swch  bill  ball  char  dict  indx
>>     37     1     1     0     0     0     1   246    12 15028
>> ./mapc data/map-fwp/adventure.map data
>> E: Caught signal 'Terminated': terminating immediately
>> make[1]: *** [data/map-fwp/adventure.sol] Terminated
>> make: *** [build-stamp] Terminated
>> Build killed with signal TERM after 300 minutes of inactivity

I'm working on it.

Problem is, that even so the level data is architecture independent,
it's build always (and takes ages), as upstream build system doesn't
support building the binary and data independently.

However, I think the Makefile can be patched, to not build data files
unless told to do so, and we can move that to binary-indep.  That should
solve this problem.

While not solving the real cause of the problem (the map generator not
outputing any progress report during the build), it's a more elegant
solution, as it saves quite some time on the buildds :)


Best regards,
  Alexander