Bug#889176: bc: Exhausts process table during build

2018-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
Control: severity -1 serious Control: tags -1 + patch This bug is constistently reproducible. I'm not sure what has changed between the time bc successfully built, and now, to regress the behavior (there have been no changes to the make-dfsg package in this timeframe); however, I also can't see

Bug#889176: bc: Exhausts process table during build

2018-02-02 Thread Daniel Schepler
Source: bc Version: 1.07.1-1 Severity: important I just noticed that on building bc, it hangs for quite a while at the point where it's calling "dh_auto_install". Top shows that eventually it's creating an infinite chain of processes "make global.o" and the build only succeeds once these