On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 03:20:57PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! While I still cannot reporduce this on barriere stretch, > please try > > export GCL_MEM_MULTIPLE=0.2 > > before building. Unless of course dpkg-buildpackage -A sanitizes the > environment, in which case please see if you can pass it on the command > line.
Hurrah! I confirm that the above variable makes the build to work again. [ I was using sbuild but I can always run "dpkg-buildpackage -A" by hand ] But there is a big paradox here. The machine on which it failed (before setting the above variable) is a QEMU/KVM virtual machine with 5GB of RAM and 2GB of swap. At the same time, I keep at least one successful build log for the same version 5.37.3-1 when the virtual machine had only 2GB of RAM (and the same 2GB of swap). So, it seems to me that if more available memory means the build is more likely to fail because of memory problems, then there is something fundamentally wrong in the build system. Thanks.
