[pkg-boost-devel] Boost needs help on ARM

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:18:00PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:34:03PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > The most recent upload of the Boost C++ libraries has produced an
> > Internal Compiler Error on ARM [1].
> 
> Looking at the buildd logs:
> 
> > Automatic build of boost_1.34.1-6 on netwinder by sbuild/arm 98
> 
> netwinder buildd does not have enough ram build to build large c++
> binaries (as g++ memory requirements have been growing a lot), and
> gcc is not very good at handling OOM, so it just ICEs.

Ah.  I didn't know that.  Thanks.

Is there any mechanism to prevent this in future?  For example, can
boost be added to a list of packages that are not to be built on a
netwinder?

Thanks,
-Steve
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