Hm, thinking about this again:

Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> While doing archive rebuilds to prepare the etch release, I tried to
>> rebuild your package many times, but never succeeded. It always times
>> out at various steps, even after setting the timeout value to 90 min,
>> which is already huge since I build on quite fast bi-opterons.
>
> It takes more than 6 hours on my Mobile Pentium (Intel(R) Pentium(R) M
> processor 1.86GHz stepping 08), and one time it wasn't finished after 10
> hours where I had to use the CPU time for something else and stopped it.
> You are just to impatient ;-)
>
>> If such long time without output are normal, would it possible to add a
>> option to some program so that it actually outputs something ?
>
> Hm.

Maybe it wasn't clear to me what "time out" means in your setup.  Does
it mean that it did not have *any* visible activity, like harddisk
access, in 90minutes?  This is unexpected.  The really long commands are
these:

        # Create Unicode encoded subfonts `$(uninamestem)00' .. 
`$(uninamestem)ff'.
        # This will take more than an hour.  Make yourself a cup of tea.
        @echo fontforge -script subfonts.pe $(typeface).ttf $(uninamestem) 
$(sfddir)/Unicode.sfd
        @( cd $(builddir) && fontforge -script subfonts.pe $(typeface).ttf 
$(uninamestem) $(sfddir)/Unicode.sfd > log 2>&1 || ($(ERR)) )
        @echo

and similar, all write their stdout to log.  And I'd say there's one
message every couple of minutes usually.  So if this didn't happen,
maybe this is more than a normal or wishlist bug...

>> touch build-stamp.gkai
>> dh_testdir
>> touch build-stamp
>> Build killed with signal TERM after 90 minutes of inactivity
>> Build killed with signal KILL after 5 minutes of inactivity
>> Build killed with signal KILL after 5 minutes of inactivity
>> Build killed with signal KILL after 5 minutes of inactivity

This looks as if a couple of processes timed out, where killed but the
build proceeded?  Can you provide a full log?

TIA, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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