On 2016-10-14 14:12, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:28:28PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > Hi MIPS gurus, > > > > We have > > Bug#837403: connectome-workbench: FTBFS with bindnow and PIE > > due to inability to build that package on mips > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=connectome-workbench&arch=mips&ver=1.2.3-2&stamp=1473733739 > > or mipsel > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=connectome-workbench&arch=mipsel&ver=1.2.3-2&stamp=1473733554 > > > > both of which fail with > > > > "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory" > > > > What would be your recommendation -- demand removing mips* from > > supported architectures or there is a chance... ? ;) > > The build log says > make -j4 > > This is due to the following in debian/rules: > dh $@ --parallel --sourcedirectory=src > > Running 4 instances of the compiler in parallel can quadruple > the memory usage.
That is true, however the amount of memory per 32-bit process is unchanged and still limited to 2GB, so I doubt it will make any change. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net
