[Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#1017752: Do you see any chance to fix the "virtual memory exhausted" for nheko on mipsel VM

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 9:14 AM Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 10:06 PM Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi mips porters,
> >
> > in bug #1017752 a
> >
> >    FTBFS on mipsel: virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
> >
> > is reported.  This remains for the new upstream version I've just
> > uploaded to experimental[1].  Do you see any chance to fix the memory
> > constraint for the autobuilder VM?  If not I'll remove mipsel from the
> > list of supported architectures to enable testing migration.
>
> Here is the trick I used on those arches for openvdb:
>
> [...]
> # Disable optimization on mipsel because the compiler is running out of memory
> # see #847752 / #879636
> ifneq (,$(filter $(DEB_BUILD_ARCH), armel armhf i386 mipsel hppa
> riscv64 sh4 x32))
>   CXXFLAGS:=$(filter-out -O2,$(CXXFLAGS)) --param ggc-min-expand=10 -O1
> endif
> [...]
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/openvdb/-/blob/debian/9.1.0-7/debian/rules#L22-26

Here is another simpler one:

* https://salsa.debian.org/webkit-team/webkit/-/blob/debian/2.38.0-1/debian/rules#L66