Re: 141releng-armv7-quarterly stuck in run-depends status for octave-forge-20241116: 34:28:33 for package build so far

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:15:38 UTC
Hello Robert,

On Feb 11, 2025, at 13:13, Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su> wrote:

> Am Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 12:01:10PM -0800 schrieb Mark Millard:
>> It did finish --after 39:49:02 .
>> 
>> As long as the O(n²) build-time problem exists: Is the
>> package's build worth the delays to most other package
>> builds that are done on on any specific builder machine?
>> 
>> ampere1 cycles through building and distributing:
>> 141arm64-quarterly
>> 141releng-armv7-quarterly
>> 1341arm64-quarterly
>> 134releng-armv7-quarterly
>> 
>> ampere3 is similar (default here is a.k.a. latest):
>> 141arm64-default
>> 141releng-armv7-default
>> 1341arm64-default
>> 134releng-armv7-default
>> 
>> If the armv7's all have that time problem, the
>> problem looks to adds days to the time to complete
>> a cycle of 4 types of builds.
>> 
>>> The reason why you see this only now is that I have recently pushed a patch
>>> to fix math/octave on armv7; previously it didn't build.=
>> 
>> Should the package be considered broken for armv7 until
>> it is fixed to build in a normal time frame instead of
>> an O(n²) tiem frame, just because it takes too long as
>> stands?
> 
> Yes, please mark it as broken.  It's only a metaport, so no
> functionality is lost by not providing it.
> The underlying problem should be fixed.

I'm not a committer --or even a maintainer of anything.
So I can not be the one to make the actual "mark it as
broken" commit. Are you looking for a bugzilla submittal
with a patch to add something like:

BROKEN_armv7=	armv7 builds are spending, e.g., 39:49:02 in an N-squared-process.

before the USES= line in the Makefile?

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com