Re: arm release issues

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:15:41PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:01:00PM -0700, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> > Yes, it can be and is configured by source package.  If you can get some
> > numbers to the buildd admin (James) about how long it should take for these
> > packages to build, it should be straightforward to fix up that config AFAIK.

> Unfortunately, not being on owner of an arm, I don't have any numbers.

> > Does anyone know what happened to make ld so much slower on arm all of a
> > sudden?

> Probably the switch to providing debugging symbols,

That doesn't seem to make sense; the change was pretty definitely in the
toolchain rather than in any single package, as a number of packages that
had built fine in the past suddenly started running out of time on arm, so
what would have changed in the linker regarding debugging symbols?

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