Bug#932795: Ethics of FTBFS bug reporting
Adrian Bunk writes:
> - An environment with at least 16 GB RAM is supported.
>
> Not sure about the exact number, but since many packages have
> workarounds for gcc or ld running into the 4 GB address space
> limit on i386 it is clear that several packages wouldn't build
> in an amd64 vm with only 8 GB RAM.
Aren't there even packages that will not build on i386 with a i386
kernel (non-PAE) as they require the full 4 GB address space to be
buildable?
Even more, from the "32 bit archs in Debian" BoF at DebConf15 I remember
the suggestion that one might have to switch to 64-bit compilers even on
32-bit architectures in the future... So building packages would in
general require a 64-bit kernel, multi-arch and 4+ GB RAM.
Ansgar
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