Re: Bug#796731: freecontact: FTBFS on mips (test suite failure)

On Fri, 2015-08-28 18:08:33 +0000, Dejan Latinovic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is obviously a consequence of mips buildd's limitations.
> In past all three successfully builds had happened on ball.
> I also was able to built freecontact successfully for mips on machine
> with FPU, locally.
> On machine without FPU, if icme_timeout is significantly increased
> tests executes successfully but need a lot of time so the TERM signal
> breaks the build.
>
> I was not able to find ball specification, so I am not sure if it have
> FPU.
> Are there any mips buildd's that have FPU?
> If yes, maybe we could blacklist freecontact on other machines?
>
> If no, should we disable tests for mips?
> I could provide patches and test it if needed?
>
> Regards,
> Dejan

Hello,

At Imagination (http://imgtec.com/mips), we are aware of this problem
and would like to donate MIPS bi-endian machines with FPUs to replace
the old MIPS hardware used by Debian as buildd servers. We have plans
to order a couple of the new machines for evaluation and testing, and
depending on that, to decide to order more for Debian.

Cheers,

Anibal
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[email protected]

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