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Re: Bug#913709: boost1.67: intermitent FTBFS on mips64el: build hangs



Hi,

Il 14/11/18 09:56, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ha scritto:
> Your package fails to build quite often on mips64el, where the build gets
> killed due to inactivity:
> 
> Cannot find class named 'action'
> Cannot find class named 'action'
> Cannot find class named 'file-target'
> Cannot find class named 'generator'
> Cannot find class named 'generator'
> Cannot find class named 'std::bad_cast'
> E: Build killed with signal TERM after 150 minutes of inactivity
> 
> This  may be due to an actual hang, or something just taking so long
> that causes the build to get killed.

Thanks for bringing this up. Actually, I was concerned about the same
thing, but I do not really know what is the way forward here.

The "Cannot find class" messages are harmless: they are produced on all
architectures and are not fatal. It is not a compiler that produces
them, but a documentation postprocessor. So the worse that can happen is
that some internal links in the documentation are broken or ignored.

Looking at [1] and comparing with [2] it seems that the compilation
takes much longer when compiled on a "Loongson 3A" machine then when
compiled on a "Cavium Octeon III" machine. MIPS porters, is this
sensible? The longer compilation time (apparently ~8.5h vs ~4.75h)
triggers the build node timeout. However this is probably a close call,
because version 1.67.0-6 managed to finish even when building on a
weaker machine.

 [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=boost1.67&arch=mips64el
 [2]
https://wiki.debian.org/MIPSPort?action=show&redirect=mips64el#Build_daemons_.26_porter_boxes

I am not sure of what is the way forward here: can larger packages, like
boost, be forced to compile on stronger machines? Or can the timeout be
raised for larger packages? Or is there anything that can I due within
the package compilation script to avoid triggering timeout? (although
this last road seems to be risky, as it might then prevent triggering
the timeout for an actually stuck build process). In line of principle
even the current situation can somewhat be tolerated, since it is enough
to reschedule the build until it gets a strong machine. However, that
does not seem optimal.

Thanks, Giovanni.
-- 
Giovanni Mascellani <g.mascellani@gmail.com>
Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles

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