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

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 1:15 AM Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 10:08:14PM +0100 schrieb Paul Gevers:
> > Source: r-cran-glmmtmb
> > Version: 1.1.4+dfsg-3
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: ftbfs
> > Justification: ftbfs
> >
> > Dear maintainer(s),
> >
> > Your package failed to build from source on mipsel, where it built
> > successfully in the past.
> >
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=r-cran-glmmtmb&arch=mipsel&ver=1.1.5%2Bdfsg-1&stamp=1669057119&raw=0
> > ...
> > cc1plus: out of memory allocating 1058400 bytes after a total of 59473920 bytes
>
> Isn't this just a matter of the autobuilders hardware?
>
> If not I do not see any other clue but removing the package for mipsel.

You might also see how many make jobs the build system is using. If
it's more than 1, then halve the number of jobs.

I used to experience the crash often on early ARM dev-boards with 1GB
of RAM and no swap file when building Crypto++. I used to run 'make -j
4' and it would crash the compiler. The workaround (for us) was to run
'make -j 1'.

Eventually I decided to add a swap file to the SDcard and set
swappiness to a low number, like 2. That fixed most of the performance
problems, but we would eat SDcards about every 3 to 6 months.

Jeff