Hi,

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 6:41 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks for the prompt and detailed reply.
>
> On 16 June 2024 at 16:13, Paul Gevers wrote:
> | Hi Dirk,
> |
> | On 16-06-2024 2:42 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | > I may need a hgand with riscv64.
> |
> | That's normally a question to the porters, in CC now, so they can have a
> | look.
> |
> | > The 1.34-1 revision needed some build
> | > changes I had done poorly in such a way that the -O0 no longer applied to
> | > some arches, this has been fixed in 1.34-2 so armel, armhf, i386 are good.
> | > But riskv64 still times out.
> |
> | Ack.
> |
> | > Can we expand the build-time window from the
> | > (arguably already large) value?
> |
> | Not that I know of.
> |
> | > Or can we (worst case) turn riskv64 builds
> | > off?
> |
> | That's up to you as a maintainer, but this should be last resort [1].
> | Don't forget to request for removal of the existing riscv64 binaries if
> | you go this route. Please be aware of [2] if you aren't already.
>
> True true, and I think I had to pull this 'safety value' once or twice before
> with challenging / large package. I will re-read [1] and [2] and ponder.
>
> riscv64 porters: I would of course also love to hear if you can offer any
> advice. The package is a tricky one as it contains (a lot of) heavily
> templated C++ code that is autogenerated via Swig for these Python
> bindings. The compilation of that one file is tricky.
>
Okay, I will have a look at this package.

After a quick look, there are a lot of architecture-related build
flags here, so I might start there first.

BR,
Bo
> Best, Dirk
>
> | Paul
> |
> | [1] https://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt : Packages must be
> | supported on as many architectures as is *reasonably* possible.
> | (Emphasis mine).
> | [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/09/msg00105.html
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