Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Hi Thimo, > > Thanks for the feedback -- much appreciated. > > On 30 May 2007 at 16:07, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > > | > MIPSers, > | > > | > I have an open FTBFS [1] again quantlib-swig, and I don't understand it. > The > | > package builds fine on a number of architectures, used to build on mips > too, > | > has not changed its build instructions but now fails. For the newest from > | > today see [2]. Older logs are at [3] and we see that this started with QL > | > 0.3.14. Is there anything different that mips requires from QL? > | > > | > Upstream, CC'ed here, is also out of ideas. > | > | The thing is mips/mipsel and some other architectures are compiled with -O0. > | The resulting object file has quite a bit more than "a single C++ call", it > > If I wrote 'one call' , I probably meant 'one function'. Sorry. > > This is swig-generated code from a __large__ c++ project that takes more than > an hour to build on my reasonably beefy x86 box with 2gb ram. It may not be > appropriate for mips/mipsel.
Build time up to the failure was 58 minutes on my machine (which is dualcore but currently runs in UP mode). [snip] > | which is a soon-to-be fixed bug in libc. I believe the specialcase for MIPS > | was introduced back when the buildds were too memory limited. Since the > | system I tested on (a bcm91250a with 1GB RAM) is the same hardware as our > | current mips/mipsel buildds I believe it is safe to remove the special > | handling (it might need to stay for arm/m68k, though). > > Could we possibly have a discussion on whether we should exclude the three > related packages > > quantlib > quantlib-swig > rquantlib > > from building on mips/mipsel and arm? They are already excluded on m68k (but > then m68k is sort-of a moot point anyway). > > Please don't misunderstand my point of view. I like mips. I think I'll get a > 'slug' box, and I run a linksys router. It's just that QuantLib is really > meant for decent-size workstations. Given that MIPS today spans the range from said Linksys router over workstation class machines like the buildds up to a SiCortex SC5832 <http://www.sicortex.com/prod_sc5832.shtml> I can't follow your rationale. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]