Re: Bug#746761: libgtk2-perl: Sometimes FTBFS (t/GtkCellRenderer.t fails) on mips, mipsel and armhf

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:11:26AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I ran a loop building it overnight.  17 builds and no failure on my
> armhf system.  How I wish people could make their builds use multiple
> cores when -j is passed, then I could have run 4 times that number
> of passes.  Seems adding '--parallel' to the end of the 'dh $@' line in
> debian/rules solves it and makes it build a lot faster.
> 
> It sure is interesting that the failure it the same in all 3 cases,
> but the only way that error could happen seems to be if $hits{render}++
> is never called, and I don't see any obvious reason for that to happen,
> especially only some of the time.

63 more successful runs on armhf (sid chroot), still haven't seen it.
I wonder if it needs a certain kernel or arm cpu type or something for
it to happen (although it also happens on mips).

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Len Sorensen