GNU bug report logs - #70663
nss@3.99 is really hard to build

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>

Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:18:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 70771

Done: Marcel van der Boom <marcel <at> hsdev.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 70663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 70663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70663: nss <at> 3.99 is really hard to build
Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 12:54:08 -0400

Hi Chris,

Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> writes:

> nss <at> 3.99 is really hard to build, it's so hard and so important that
> data.guix.gnu.org is still after two days trying to process [1]. I say
> so important because you have to build nss <at> 3.99 to compute the channel
> instance derivations for Guix.

I agree that the nss test suite takes a ridiculous amount of time to run
(multiple hours on a fast machine IIRC).  Are we missing a '--fast' test
flag or something to make it run in a more reasonable amount of time?

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim
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