Bug#932795: Ethics of FTBFS bug reporting
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 08:45:42PM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> 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?
That's true (and PAE doesn't make a difference for that).
> 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.
Most packages could still be built natively (and building GNU hello
will never require 4GB RAM), but building all packages natively on
32bit architectures is already problematic and might not be feasible
long-term.
> Ansgar
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Adrian
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