On 06/04/16 10:39, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2016-03-11 19:11, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi, > >> It's been a long while that I have been asking on #debian-buildd about some >> mips buildds with a floating point unit, and the answer has always been "it >> will happen soon". >> >> Currently this state of affairs causes some packages to take several *days* >> to build. >> >> So what's the status of this? Is there anything blocking this? Is there no >> modern mips hardware with a fpu, like we used to have? > > A first machine with FPU have been installed yesterday in AQL and called > mips-aql-06. It has successfully built packages using floating point > which failed to build before: > - babl is now built in 27 minutes instead of getting killed after 12h > due to timeout [1] > - chealpix is now built in 10 min instead of getting killed after 12h > due to timeout [2] > - healpix-cxx is now built in 1h09 instead of getting killed after 78h > of timeout [3] > > In addition it has 4 cores instead of 2 cores on the previous machines, > so it builds package with parallel=n faster: > - samba is now built in 1h23 instead of 2h37 due to the additional > cores [4]. > > More machines will be installed later so that we have full buildd > redundancy.
Great news! Thanks, Emilio
