On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 07:59:26PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Control: severity -1 important > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:20:28 +0100 Alastair McKinstry > <alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie> wrote: >... > > I will enable the verbose debugging (#896861). Perhaps --no-parallel > > would be a good idea, but I will avoid inserting that in the next upload > > until we understand the failure. > > I have built openmpi_3.0.1-9 on plummer (ppc64el porterbox) 20 times in a loop > without a failure.
I've also not succeeded in reproducing it locally. > It would be good to fix this but with such a low failure rate > I'm downgrading this to allow migration to testing. 3.0.1-9 did FTBFS due to this bug on two architectures (ppc64 and sh4): https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=openmpi&suite=sid Unfortunately I have so far failed on understanding why libtool sometimes adds this stray -l No disagreement that this shouldn't be a blocker for testing migration of the openmpi transition, but please change the severity back afterwards so that we won't miss fixing/workarounding this before buster (I agree with Alastair that --no-parallel has a good chance of workarounding it). > Emilio cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
