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

[Aurelien Jarno]

Steve M. Robbins a écrit :
> 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.

It has just been built successfully on grieg.

> 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?

This has to be changed on netwinder itself. James, could you please do that?

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