[R-pkg-team] Bug#1025203: r-cran-glmmtmb: FTBFS on mipsel

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 10:29 AM Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
>
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> Am Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 08:38:43AM +0100 schrieb Mathieu Malaterre:
> > I do not have a clean answer to this, but in my experience it is
> > getting more and more difficult to compile anything on mipsel with
> > g++-12. The default option `-g -O2` seems to imply `take as much
> > memory as you want to get things to compile` so this end up crossing
> > the 2GB hard-limit.
> >
> > For example here is what webkit is doing to work around the symptoms:
> >
> > * https://salsa.debian.org/webkit-team/webkit/-/blob/debian/2.39.1-1/debian/rules#L66-71
>
> Thanks for the hint.  I tried this but this does not work since the R
> build system does not respect external set variables.  Since chances
> are really low that this package will be used on mipsel I asked for
> removal on this architecture.

Totally agree! Let's start the cabal against mipsel as a release arch.