Adrian Bunk writes: > - An environment with at least 16 GB RAM is supported. > > Not sure about the exact number, but since many packages have > workarounds for gcc or ld running into the 4 GB address space > limit on i386 it is clear that several packages wouldn't build > in an amd64 vm with only 8 GB RAM.
Aren't there even packages that will not build on i386 with a i386 kernel (non-PAE) as they require the full 4 GB address space to be buildable? Even more, from the "32 bit archs in Debian" BoF at DebConf15 I remember the suggestion that one might have to switch to 64-bit compilers even on 32-bit architectures in the future... So building packages would in general require a 64-bit kernel, multi-arch and 4+ GB RAM. Ansgar
