Bug#769864: vcmi: FTBFS on armhf, hurd-any, kfreebsd-any, mipsel and ppc64el

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

with version 0.97+dfsg-2 it now builds on hurd-any and kfreebsd-any.

The remaining problems are armhf, mipsel and ppc64el.

The armhf problem might be due to heavy swapping bringing the build to a
standstill. At the point where the build stops, each compilation unit will
require about 2.3 GB of memory. Since armhf boxes build with
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=5 this means that 11 GB of memory might be consumed
at a time which doesn't go well on a machine with only 4 GB of physical memory.
The problem might get solved with the next upload which removes the --parallel
option from the dh invocation in debian/rules.

I still have no idea about the mipsel ICE but applied for access to the mipsel
porterbox to investigate this issue. I tried setting up a qemu based
environment but failed because it seems that it is not possible to just use
Debian installer but instead a manual debootstrap has to be done. I didn't find
the time to fiddle around with that.

The ppc64el problem seems to be #770670

cheers, josch