Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#719484: boost1.54: FTBFS
Steve M. Robbins dixit:
>Is it possible to get a machine with more virtual memory?
Possible but incredibly difficult: 768 MiB physical RAM are about
the maximum (and even then only possible on the VM buildd, not on
the bare-metal ones, although some Amigas might be bumped up to
roughly 256 or even 512 MiB RAM), and you know just how well swap
scales.
I could, in theory, add several GiB of swap, yes, but I don’t know
if that’s a sustainable solution.
>I noticed in the log that all the virtual memory exhaustion failures
>occur in build the log library. There have been complaints about this
>library on the Boost list recently. For some reason, this library is
>by far the biggest one of Boost. There have been reports that some of
Oh, I see.
>the Windows testers are failing on this library because the linker
>takes so long that the test times out.
Interestingly enough, we’ve had similar issues.
>One simple answer: disable building Boost.Log.
Indeed, but what if it becomes used in Debian?
>> maybe you can build boost with less opti???
>> misation or without debugging (though Policy mandates that)
>> or with reduced debugging (webkit uses -gstabs for several
>> architectures, even those in the main archive, for similar
>> reasons)?
>
>All of those are worth a try.
Okay. I’d say let’s try the gstabs thing and more swap first.
bye,
//mirabilos
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