common tobuild,1.345,1.346

[Quentin Spencer]

seth vidal wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 21:51 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
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>>On Tue, 10 May 2005 14:27:11 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
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>>>I just got a notice that the build of octave failed. The only thing the 
>>>build log says is: "Build process terminated by timeout".
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>>It's a large package and builds for a long time. Most likely exceeds
>>the time-out set in the build system, which perhaps is still to short.
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>it's an hour and a half, iirc.
>probably there is another error that's causing it. I've seen a case
>where the popen calls can hang up b/c of too much error output. I think
>I know a fix but I've not found a way to replicate it yet :(
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FWIW, octave is a big package that takes a long time to build (close to 
an hour on a relatively modern system is common), and it generates a lot 
of output. The spec uses the --enable-picky-flags option on configure (I 
don't know why--it was that way in core) which generates lots of 
warnings and could potentially double the size of the log output. If 
this can potentially help it compile, I'd be happy to change it.

-Quentin