On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 14:09, Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> wrote:
> > > I asked in Ubuntu to move the meson autopkgtests to a machine with more > > > ram memory, and > > > now the test passes. > > > The Ubuntu VMs have 1536MB of ram, probably not enough for the testsuite > > > to pass. > > > > Good that it works, but that seems a bit strange. I run the test suite > > on an x86 Debian VM with 4 gigs of ram and it passes without problems. > > Probably if you lower the 4GB to 1.5GB you will get the same failure? D'oh! I accidentally read that as 15 GB rather than 1.5GB because I blindly assumed that there is no way the default value can be that low. Compiling e.g. any C++ program of decent size makes the linker take several gigabytes of ram easily.
