Re: Timed-out builds on armel

[Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot@debian.org>]

Hallo Joachim.

Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Sex Mar 05 13:52:30 -0300 2010:
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> Am Freitag, den 05.03.2010, 10:08 -0300 schrieb Marco Túlio Gontijo e
> Silva:
> > This problem is also happening with ghc6, agda and agda-stdlib.
> > These packages are using the script watcher.sh to avoid the timeout, but this
> > was considered a bug (#571824).  I thought about trying ./Setup build
> > --verbose=2 (or 3) to make it avoid the timeout only when it's really doing
> > something.  Do you think this could work?
> 
> I don’t think that making the build system more verbose helps (it
> already prints a line per module built). If anything, then we need to
> make ghc more verbose, which in turn would make the build log
> horrendously large.

This is a bad side effect, for sure.  But I'm not sure it's a good thing to
stay such long time without no output.  Maybe a big build log is a smaller
problem.

> Also see the other thread on d-release?

Yes, I've read it there.

Auf Wiedersehen.
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