Control: severity -1 important On 11.03.19 17:34, Santiago Vila wrote: > Package: src:gcc-8-cross > Version: 26 > Tags: ftbfs > > Hello Matthias. > > I have been unable to build this package for the last 12 months: [...]
> The only unusual thing is that I'm using a single-CPU virtual machine > for the build, not a desktop computer, but I fail to see why that > would make any difference, as the only processor-related thing > I found is this in debian/rules: > > NJOBS = > # Support parallel=<n> in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS (see #209008) > ifneq (,$(filter parallel=%,$(subst $(,), ,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))) > NJOBS := -j $(subst parallel=,,$(filter parallel=%,$(subst > $(,),$(space),$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))) > endif > > which I believe is pretty standard and should not affect the end result. > > So: What could be the reason for the failure? A bug in one of the Makefiles? I have no clue, I have never seen that before, and it seems to work fine on the buildds, and in the cross-toolchain-base* package's autopkg test. Starting here a build with -j1 to see if it's reproducible. Is this seen with gcc-7-cross and gcc-9-cross as well?