I'm increasingly of the opinion that we should not stretch our limited
resources even thinner by spending so much time on architectures used for
network routers where it is unlikely that anyone will want to view medical
image files.
În vin., 4 ian. 2019 la 18:40, Julien Lamy <l...@unistra.fr> a scris:
> Hi all,
> The latest version of Odil does not build on mips64el [1] and if I'm not
> mistaken, this is the only thing preventing the package to migrate to
> testing. By going through the logs, one of the unit tests times out when
> building [2]. Since I don't have access to a real mips64el box, I've
> tested building in a Qemu guest and got similar results: the build also
> fails with a timeout, albeit earlier in the process.
>
> I've watched the RAM during the Qemu build ("grep Committed_AS
> /proc/meminfo"), and it is getting nowhere the limit at this point of
> the build, which makes me think that this is not caused by a RAM
> problem. The configuration of the Qemu guest differs from the official
> builder due to Qemu limitations (less RAM, non-parallel build), so this
> is not the best test setup, and I'm unsure on how to fix this. The three
> options I've thought of are rather unsatisfactory:
>
> - Don't build the unit tests. Later build steps are however much more
> resource-intensive, so this will probably not solve the problem
> - Increase the build timeout. Not sure whether asking to reconfigure the
> buildd network for a package with such a low popcon is a good idea :)
> - Don't build Odil on mips64el
>
> What would be your advice in this situation ?
>
> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=odil&suite=sid
> [2] test_webservices_WADORSRequest has a start message ("Building CXX
> object"), but no end message ("Built target")
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Julien
>
>
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