GNU bug report logs - #26441
Gnulib’s ‘test-lock’ fails to complete on machines with >= 32 cores

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Message #72 received at 26441-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26441-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26441: Gnulib’s ‘test-lock’ fails to complete on machines with >= 32 cores
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 01:29:48 +0200

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com> skribis:

>> Maybe we can simply patch the important packages (findutils,
>> libunistring) and wait and see if others need the patch.  Not ideal, but
>> I can’t think of a better way.
>
> Ok fine for me.
>
> I'll send findutils and libunistring patches for now.

I see these have been committed to core-updates:

  commit b100e0e89ebd1a6e73d6be4e354dd684abb057a4
  Author: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
  Date:   Mon Apr 17 12:18:29 2017 +0200

      gnu: libunistring: Fix make check issues on multi-core machines.

      * gnu/packages/patches/libunistring-gnulib-multi-core.patch: New file.
      * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch): Add previous patch.
      * gnu/packages/libunistring.scm (libunistring)[patches]: Add a reference
      to previous patch.

      Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

  commit da8e256a527a21ad88005c1d84514d910b964c19
  Author: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
  Date:   Mon Apr 17 12:18:28 2017 +0200

      gnu: findutils: Fix make check issues on multi-core machines.

      * gnu/packages/patches/findutils-gnulib-multi-core.patch: New file.
      * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch): Add previous patch.
      * gnu/packages/base.scm (findutils)[patches]: Add a reference
      to the previous patch.

      Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

Closing this bug now.  Thank you Mathieu!

Ludo’.

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