gnustep-base takes ages to compile on i386 buildds

[Luca Falavigna]

In order to compile gnustep-base on i386, Ubuntu buildds need about 12 hours, while other ports only take five minutes.

See these build log status for further reference:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/1.16.1-2ubuntu1/+build/661253 (i386)
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/1.16.1-2ubuntu1/+build/661251 (amd64)
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/1.14.1-8ubuntu1/+build/614242 (i386)
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnustep-base/1.14.1-8ubuntu1/+build/614240 (amd64)

[Traumflug (mah-jump-ing)]

Forwarded this bug upstream:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?25247

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

This is because Ubuntu buildds does not allow Internet access.

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

That's correct, lp-buildds do not allow internet access by design (security), and that's not going to change, that's why I'm marking this task as Invalid.

 Please include everything needed to build a source in the sourcepackage or postpone downloads to the installation time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnustep-base - 1.19.0-2ubuntu1

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gnustep-base (1.19.0-2ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Launchpad buildds do not have Internet access, so they are unable to
    fetch remote DTDs. Adjusting DTD paths to look for the local ones
    (available at /usr/share/xml/gnustep/gsdoc-1_0_{1,3}.dtd), we avoid
    hanging for a long time trying to have Internet access, leading to a
    very shorter compile time (LP: #245981).
    Local DTDs are available in gnustep-base-common package, so also add
    it to Build-Depends-Indep.

 -- Luca Falavigna <email address hidden> Thu, 07 May 2009 11:19:57 +0200