[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#467327: arpack: Kills the buildds.

[Ondrej Certik]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:
> Package: arpack
>  Version: 2.1+parpack96-1
>  Severity: grave
>
>  Hi,
>
>  It seems your package is starting lots of make processes.  The log file
>  ends with:
>  make[6534]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96'
>  ( cd /build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96//BLAS; /usr/bin/make clean )
>  make[6535]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96/BLAS'
>  Makefile:69: warning: overriding commands for target `.f.o'
>  ../ARmake.inc:96: warning: ignoring old commands for target `.f.o'
>  rm -f *.o a.out core
>  make[6535]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96/BLAS'
>  ( cd /build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96//LAPACK; /usr/bin/make clean )
>  make[6535]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96/LAPACK'
>  Makefile:91: warning: overriding commands for target `.f.o'
>  ../ARmake.inc:96: warning: ignoring old commands for target `.f.o'
>  rm -f *.o a.out core
>  make[6535]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96/LAPACK'
>  ( cd /build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96//UTIL; /usr/bin/make clean )
>  make[6535]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96/UTIL'
>  Makefile:47: warning: overriding commands for target `.f.o'
>  ../ARmake.inc:96: warning: ignoring old commands for target `.f.o'
>  rm -f *.a *.o a.out core
>  make[6535]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96/UTIL'
>  ( cd /build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96//SRC; /usr/bin/make clean )
>  make[6535]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96/SRC'
>  Makefile:50: warning: overriding commands for target `.f.o'
>  ../ARmake.inc:96: warning: ignoring old commands for target `.f.o'
>  rm -f *.a *.o a.out core
>  make[6535]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96/SRC'
>  ( cd ; /usr/bin/make clean )
>  /bin/sh: line 0: cd: /home/buildd: No such file or directory
>  make[6535]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96'
>  ( cd /build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96//BLAS; /usr/bin/make clean )
>  make[6536]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/arpack-2.1+parpack96/BLAS'
>  Makefile:69: warning: overriding commands for target `.f.o'
>  ../ARmake.inc:96: warning: ignoring old commands for target `.f.o'
>
>  With other words, it recursivly called make 6536 times so far, creating an
>  OOM condition, and the kernel of course does not pick the process to kill.

Wow, pretty serious bug to kill buildds... ;)

Ondrej