Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add freeimage.

[Andreas Enge]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 10:00:38AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Same problem as with Valgrind, so I would suggest disabling builds on
> MIPS, as done in commit 67a86d3.

Speaking of valgrind, how is transitivity of disabled builds handled,
on hydra and by the users?

I noticed that some packages do not build on mipss due to a dependency
on valgrind, for instance petsc-openmpi and petsc-complex-openmpi:
   http://hydra.gnu.org/build/132921
   http://hydra.gnu.org/build/132781
It was a bit confusing to me at first, since valgrind was not in the
"still failing jobs" tab, until I realised it was also not in the "still
succeeding jobs" tab and in fact disabled.

The two packages in question depend indirectly on valgrind via openmpi.
Now openmpi seems to be disabled for mips on hydra also, although it is
not explicitly disabled in the package recipe. These two other packages
are not disabled, however. So does this mean that the dependency graph
for disabled inputs is followed only to depth 1?

Andreas