Two days old build breakage on i386.

Herbert Valerio Riedel hvriedel at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 12:37:12 UTC 2014


On 2014-06-26 at 13:42:47 +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
> On 06/26/14 12:37 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:
[...]

>> Also, how do I repro this if I don't have a x86 machine lying around?
>> Have people been successful working on these kind of issues in a VM?
>
> My simplest way is to install VirtualBox and inside it i386-ubuntu,
> give it 2 GB RAM, 15GB drive and this should get you going really
> quickly. Then you will need to:

Fwiw, on Ubuntu I'd rather recommend something more lightweight such as
schroot or using LXC, i.e.

  https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/lxc.html#lxc-basic-usage

as using such a container seems to have less SMP-scheduling overhead and
memory overhead.



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