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

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 70663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70663: nss <at> 3.99 is really hard to build
Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 18:14:48 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

I did read some of the all.sh script used for the tests and there is
some environment variables you can set here:

  https://github.com/nss-dev/nss/blob/master/tests/all.sh#L70-L82

It seems like there are 4 "cycles", maybe we could just run the standard
cycle or at least check how long they each take.

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, inline)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.