GNU bug report logs - #27157
Building Guile 2.2 "times out"

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 27157 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#27157: Building Guile 2.2 "times out"
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 23:01:37 +0200

Hello,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> skribis:

>> 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?

It does not.  Only build-aux/hydra/gnu-system.scm does.

Ludo’.

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