Subject: Re: bug#27157: Building Guile 2.2 "times out"

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 13:44:22 +0200

Hi Maxim,

> I'm not sure where this timeout value can be configured, but clearly it
> shouldn't be 1 hour since 2 cores of an i5 intel class processor can't
> manage to build it under 1 hour.

for the guile-2.2 package I see that this is part of the package
definition:

    (properties '((timeout . 72000)               ;20 hours
                  (max-silent-time . 10800)))     ;3 hours (needed on ARM)

We do this so that we can build it on Hydra.
You can override the max silent time:

    guix build --max-silent-time=9999999 guile

Does “guix build” not respect these build properties?

--
Ricardo

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