On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 00:22 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > The testsuite for glibc is known to be broken. Just > > export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck before building > > with dpkg-buildpackage -b ... > > Broken tests are marked as such, there aren't so many marked as such. > > Using nocheck is a way to avoid the issue indeed. > > The build boxes have 3GB memory and 4GB swap, and do pass the > testsuite > fine (minus the marked tests)
Well, I've never managed to build glibc with tests enabled. And it takes a much longer time to build. But of course YMWV.
