On 05/01/17 14:00, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Hi > > Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> writes: > >> On 2016-12-30 10:06, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >>> On 29/12/16 20:56, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: >> >> The problem is indeed a memory issue, not that the buildd doesn't have >> enough memory, but just that you can allocate only 2GB per process on a >> 32-bit MIPS machine. As Emilio said, the above GCC flag should help to >> reduce the memory usage by running the garbage collector more often. >> >> However gcc 6.3 seems to have improved the situation a bit, so I given >> back the packages, I hope they will build now. Otherwise I have a patch >> ready to change the GCC defaults. That said GCC upstream consider it's a >> bug in the garbage collector [1], so that should be fixed instead and the >> patch should be considered as a temporary workaround. >> > > Aurelien thanks for taking care and resheduling the build. Unfortunately > this did not solve the problem. But setting the following variables > solves the virtual memory issue for me on the mipsel porterbox (eller): > > export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND= --param ggc-min-expand=10 -O1 > export DEB_CXXFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND= --param ggc-min-expand=10 -O1 > export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_STRIP= -O2 > export DEB_CXXFLAGS_MAINT_STRIP= -O2 > > But unfortunately the build fails at another point. See the log below. > I'm not sure how to fix this. If I understand it right these atomic > operations are just not supported on mipsel[1]. Or is there a way to make > them work?
They are supported. You are probably missing -latomic. Cheers, Emilio
