On 28-04-13 19:12, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:21:17PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> "Christian T. Steigies" <c...@debian.org> writes: >> >>> how do I lower the file limit? >> ulimit(1) > Thanks, that has actually worked in a manual build: ulimit -n 512 > > I don't understand why it works,
Presumably the test checks if it can actually open enough files to do its thing, and will exit with exit state 77 if not (which signals to automake that the test was skipped) > but would it improve the performance of the > buildds if we set this by default? Highly unlikely. It's more likely that other builds will just start failing instead, because they can't open files. It made sense in this one particular case, but that doesn't mean it will be a good idea always. -- Copyshops should do vouchers. So that next time some bureaucracy requires you to mail a form in triplicate, you can mail it just once, add a voucher, and save on postage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/517e24db.2050...@debian.org
