qt-creator arm build timing out

[Kalev Lember]

On 03/08/2014 10:50 PM, Sandro Mani wrote:
> On 07.03.2014 14:09, Sandro Mani wrote:
>> On 07.03.2014 14:05, Dan Horák wrote:
>>> On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:53:24 +0100
>>> Sandro Mani <manisandro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to build qt-creator [1], but the builds fail due to the
>>>> arm build timing out. Is there anyway I can increase the timeout?
>>> can you resubmit with parallel make disabled for ARM? Building heavy C++
>>> code in parallel with only 4GB RAM leads to heavy swapping which slows
>>> down the build.
>>
>> Thanks, done.
> Argh, it timed out again [1]. Any other suggestions?

Try reducing the debuginfo level for arm. C++ code sometimes leads to
massive debuginfo which could be gigabytes in size. Tuning it down
should reduce both the build time and the memory requirement.

This is how it's done for webkitgtk:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/webkitgtk3.git/tree/webkitgtk3.spec#n102

Hope this helps,
Kalev