Bug#880883: FTBFS on arm64: test suite times out (on arm-arm-04)

[Simon McVittie]

Control: severity 880883 important

On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 at 23:41:50 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 at 18:37:42 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > I gave it back again, and it again got picked by arm-arm-04. With the help from
> > jcristau (as I don't have access to that machine) I determined that the build
> > gets killed while running the closures test, which gets executed by is way too
> > slow on that machine (it'd take around 200 minutes to complete it).
> 
> In 2.54.2-3 I've cut that test down to 1% of the usual repetitions on
> arm64, which seems like enough to prove that this functionality does
> basically work. The fact that it's far slower than on other CPUs is
> still a bug, but hopefully one that can be downgraded to important.

Doing so. It has built OK on arm64 now.

    smcv