On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:44:39AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > There is one src-package which builds a few packages with architecture > -all and -any. http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wordnet.html > > If this package is built it wants more than one gigabyte (~1.2-1.4G) > RAM to build. So there are two buildd servers can't build > *architecture:all* packages. So this package can't pass into testing > for a long time (more than 120 days).
This raises the question why binary-indep targets are built when not needed. > Does anybody have mipsel and (or) armel host (or virtual host)? Could > anybody make an bin-NMU? I see the normal compilation is a tiny fraction here, so a distcc or scratchbox setup wouldn't help much, and the build system appears to have no support for cross building. Is preparing the wordnet data CPU or memory bound? -- I get an impression that the latter. If so, you could build it in qemu. It is crippled CPU-wise: an unrelated parallelized build that takes 5 minutes on a 4-core amd64 machine and an hour on 1-core real armel (n900) lasts 8 hours on qemu-armel -- but you can throw more memory at it. -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100924220030.ga20...@angband.pl