> The failure in build may in fact just be because the build machine is > too slow.
It's a possibility to bear in mind, definitely, but the perhaps-infinite loop can be observed with a cross-compiler: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876825 (I will test with the compilers in unstable, as requested, if no one else gets there first.) > The file it timed out on takes almost 1 minute to compile on a 2GHz x86. > That one file is about 90% of the total build time of the package. > > How long does it take on the armel build box and how much memory does > it use while doing it? I don't think the buildds report memory usage, but the time is 150 minutes: https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=rnahybrid&arch=armel