Bug 668500

Summary:	games-util/lgogdownloader has USE="debug" turned on by default
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	tt_1 <herrtimson>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	James Le Cuirot <chewi>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	games, jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description tt_1 2018-10-13 09:23:41 UTC

looks like this: 

emerge -pv lgogdownloader

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/tinyxml2-6.2.0:0/6::gentoo  USE="-static-libs -test" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N    ~] dev-cpp/htmlcxx-0.86::gentoo  USE="-static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] net-libs/liboauth-1.0.3::gentoo  USE="nss -bindist -curl -doc" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N    ~] games-util/lgogdownloader-3.4::gentoo  USE="debug" 0 KiB

Total: 4 packages (4 new), Size of downloads: 0 KiB

In the ebuild it's not forced but switched on per default as in: IUSE="+debug"

Is this for a reason? The debug cflags need a lot of memory, and made my rpi crash upon compile as I didn't expected an ebuild to use >400mb per thread if the distfiles is just 75kb.

Comment 1 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2018-10-14 07:37:18 UTC

I've dropped the flag but only because it didn't actually do anything. This is a C++ program that uses libraries such as Boost, I'm not surprised it requires so much RAM to build.

Comment 2 tt_1 2018-10-14 08:45:39 UTC

You're right, it doesn't make a difference for the amount of ram used per thread. Its just the way it is, so I'll restrict the jobs for it on the rpi.