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[PATCH] gnu: lcov: disable parallel tests

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From: Ryan Sundberg <ryan <at> arctype.co>
To: 74618 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Ryan Sundberg <ryan <at> arctype.co>
Subject: [bug#74618] [PATCH] gnu: lcov: disable parallel tests
Date: Sun,  1 Dec 2024 21:29:39 -0800

`make check` is not reliable for lcov when run in parallel
(e.g. `make -j 24 check`). Disable parallelism for the test suite.

* gnu/packages/code (lcov): Set #:parallel-tests? #f

Signed-off-by: Ryan Sundberg <ryan <at> arctype.co>
Change-Id: Ibb3618c4786dfbb50b90e725297947458115347c
---
 gnu/packages/code.scm | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/code.scm b/gnu/packages/code.scm
index 04ca4dfd6b..2ad1d8616a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/code.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/code.scm
@@ -556,6 +556,9 @@ (define-public lcov
      '(#:test-target "test"
        #:make-flags (list (string-append "PREFIX="
                                          (assoc-ref %outputs "out")))
+       ;; This test suite has race conditions in its scripts which make it
+       ;; unreliable when run in parallel.
+       #:parallel-tests? #f
        #:phases
        (modify-phases %standard-phases
          (add-after 'unpack 'patch-references-to-commands

base-commit: ce877a777e6ec089dc347e9883387d3080b471cf
-- 
2.41.0

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