Bug#932678: glib2.0: tests timeout on i386 and mips

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sun Jul 28 10:24:43 BST 2019


On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 at 00:04:01 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> The UTM8 based buildds like mips-sil-01 are much faster than the
> mips-aql-0{1,2,4,5} buildds, and also have an FPU, although I am not
> sure it plays a role here.

The test that timed out uses g_random_double_range() in a fairly tight
loop, and that function casts random integers to doubles, so if mips-aql-*
is emulating floating point in software I'm not necessarily surprised
it's so slow.

> After giving back this package, it built successfully on mips-manda-01.
> I have therefore blacklisted glib2.0 from the slowest buildds.

In 2.60.6 I've also disabled that test on mips.

    smcv



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