Subject: bug#18702: libsodium fails to build on i686

From: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:06:27 -0500

Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hydra has never successfully built libsodium on i686, though it succeeds
> on both x86_64 and mips64el.  See:
>
>   http://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/libsodium-1.0.0.i686-linux
>   http://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/libsodium-0.5.0.i686-linux
>
> The configure script apparently hangs here:
>
> checking if gcc -std=gnu99 supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
> checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
> checking if gcc -std=gnu99 PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
> checking if gcc -std=gnu99 static flag -static works... building of `/gnu/store/61lwfp7mk1da0kip76i1kn4gxf0mfp4n-libsodium-1.0.0.drv' timed out after 3600 seconds of silence
> @ build-failed /gnu/store/61lwfp7mk1da0kip76i1kn4gxf0mfp4n-libsodium-1.0.0.drv - timeout

This problem seems to be fixed on the core-updates branch, where we have
our first successful libsodium build on i686:

  http://hydra.gnu.org/build/196512
  http://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/core-updates/libsodium-1.0.0.i686-linux

      Mark