Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.0.4 User: debian-m...@lists.debian.org Usertags: mips mipsel
It would be nice if the default CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS were updated on mips & mipsel (only) to include an additional gcc flag: `--param ggc-min-expand=10` This has caused multiple FTBFS in the past as for example: 849657 or 879636. See previous discussions on debian-mips@l.d.o: On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:14 PM, James Cowgill <jcowg...@debian.org> wrote: > On 23/11/17 11:42, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> YunQiang, >> >> Do you know of any drawbacks ? > > This has been raised before: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2016/10/msg00049.html > > I think it's generally a good idea. You wouldn't want to "enforce" this > - you would set it as an overridable default setting. > > I think the disadvantages are: compilation speed, I think there is no > official way to do this so you would have to hack the gcc source a bit, > and deviation from upstream / other distros.
