Subject: Re: bug#40887: No substitutes for libreoffice / vigra
From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
To: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 23:56:23 -0500
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Leo,

Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> writes:

> ci.guix.gnu.org is having trouble building vigra (a dependency of
> libreoffice) because the build times out after 1 hour of silence [0]:
>
> ------
> [ 94%] Linking CXX executable test_threadpool
> cd /tmp/guix-build-vigra-1.11.1.drv-0/build/test/threadpool &&
> /gnu/store/iz9500ssxcqlyr74hg1jq10ycrh42yq1-cmake-minimal-3.15.1/bin/cmake
> -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/test_threadpool.dir/link.txt
> --verbose=1
> /gnu/store/x3jx25cd3q363mr7nbgzrhrv1vza6cf7-gcc-7.4.0/bin/c++
> -std=c++11 -pthread
> -I/gnu/store/mh501jvl3hl2fja4n1iial5zjy36qrys-ilmbase-2.4.1/include/OpenEXR
> -ffloat-store -O2 -g -DNDEBUG -rdynamic
> CMakeFiles/test_threadpool.dir/test.cxx.o
> CMakeFiles/test_threadpool.dir/testsuccess.cxx.o -o test_threadpool
> Running test_threadpool
> cd /tmp/guix-build-vigra-1.11.1.drv-0/build/test/threadpool && ./run_test_threadpool.sh
> building of
> `/gnu/store/mfnzxkhj4hiayk9lbb7vp5qxa9qjm1li-vigra-1.11.1.drv' timed
> out after 3600 seconds of silence
> @ build-failed /gnu/store/mfnzxkhj4hiayk9lbb7vp5qxa9qjm1li-vigra-1.11.1.drv - timeout
> ------
>
> It takes a lot of resources to build this package and people are
> reporting difficulties on the mailing lists and IRC [1]. Is there anything
> we can do to make it more likely to build on the CI servers?

While there are currently substitutes available for both vigra and
libreoffice, I've raised the max-silent-time timeout value from 1 h to 2
h in a25896bb7576c8232acc7a3fd4da0b1cba89569b.  Hopefully that'll help
keeping the problem at bay.

Thanks for the report!

Closing,

Maxim