Bug#788533: mapnik: FTBFS: virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory (Was: Bug#756867: transition: gdal)

[Jérémy Lal]

2015-06-20 13:34 GMT+02:00 Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>:

> On 06/19/2015 06:35 PM, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > 2015-06-19 18:22 GMT+02:00 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org>:
> >
> >> (Moving the discussion to #788533; #756867 bcc'ed)
> >>
> >> On 19/06/15 14:40, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> >>> The mips* FTBFS are a recurring problem for the mapnik package,
> previous
> >>> builds were no different. I'll try to get it to build on a porterbox,
> >>> but I expect intervention from the buildd admins will be required like
> >>> last time to make sure only the buildds with the most resources try to
> >>> build mapnik.
> >>>
> >>> See: https://bugs.debian.org/742149
> >>>      https://bugs.debian.org/729121
> >>
> >> I'm not sure there are buildds with more RAM. Note that the package
> failed
> >> in
> >> the exact same way on kfreebsd-i386, which has 3GB of RAM + 4GB of swap.
> >> Since
> >> all these arches are 32bits, more memory is probably not going to help.
> >>
> >> Instead, perhaps you can make the build take less memory, e.g. by
> reducing
> >> the
> >> optimizations (-O1?) or using some flags such as the linker's
> >> --no-keep-memory.
> >
> >
> > Mapnik 2.2 used to pass builds with some of those options, also with
> > removing
> > -ftemplate-depth-300.
> > That last option i restored with mapnik 3.0, to see what would happen
> with
> > upstream options,
> > since so much has changed in that project.
> > I'm preparing now an upload with that option removed.
>
> The new uploaded didn't resolve the build failures, it still failed on
> {hurd,kfreebsd}-i386 & mips*.
>
> Since it's a recurring problem on mips*, maybe exclude these
> architectures and request removal of the package on mips*.
>


I've requested removal of the old mapnik 2.2 libs on the three architectures
where it fails. I've been told that's the only thing needed to allow
migration to testing.
https://bugs.debian.org/789720

It doesn't forbid trying builds with suggested flags above (-O1,
--no-keep-memory).

Jérémy.
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