Ardour3 architecture list

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Sat Jul 12 13:32:51 UTC 2014


Quoting Reinhard Tartler (2014-07-12 15:21:42)
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> 
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Felipe Sateler 
>> <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
[...]
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Quoting Felipe Sateler (2014-07-10 17:12:34)
>>>>>>> Ardour3 takes a long time to build. The mips and mipsel buildds 
>>>>>>> killed the build after 150 and 300 minutes of inactivity. I 
>>>>>>> managed to build ardour3 in the mipsel porterbox, so I don't 
>>>>>>> think ardour has any real problem on mipsel. I was wondering if 
>>>>>>> maybe we should restrict ardour to the architectures it is 
>>>>>>> likely to be used. Otherwise we might need to ask that ardour be 
>>>>>>> retried until it manages to print output fast enough to avoid 
>>>>>>> getting killed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think we should not decide based on where it is likely to be 
>>>>>> used, but [w]here is is possible to use.
[...]
>>> The problem, as far as I can see, is that the build takes too long. I
>>> built ardour3 in eder (a mipsel porterbox) successfully, and it took
>>> over 12 hours!
[...]
>> It turns out that waf prints its diagnostics on stderr instead of
>> stdout. For some reason, the buildd does not monitor stderr, so it
>> thought that the build had not printed anything for 5 hours! I think I
>> have this fixed by a patch, so lets see how this goes. I;m building
>> now

Sounds promising!  Fingers crossed that it was the right fix... :-)

> If that doesn't work out, what about asking the porters to mark 
> ardour3 as NFS (not-for-as) in the buildd configuration, and have then 
> ftp-master remove the existing binary packages from unstable?
>
> This way it is up to the porters to look after the package.

For the record, I am fine with that as well: It is not that I strongly 
believe that Ardour is suitable for MIPS specifically, but that porters 
should decide, not us.

 - Jonas

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