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authorEric Bavier <bavier@cray.com>2017-10-30 11:23:46 -0500
committerEric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>2017-11-06 17:32:42 -0600
commitacc2dab7f2f50c9169d6388007c770878eae4a9c (patch)
treedf9a400578fa2233dcde024127ea3c0b8b58b673 /gnu/packages/base.scm
parenta7c7d5ab8bf2a5e7c21c401cb93ffa0164eccbbb (diff)
downloadguix-acc2dab7f2f50c9169d6388007c770878eae4a9c.tar.gz
gnu: Disable gnulib's test-lock test in packages.
* gnu/packages/base.scm (findutils)[source]: Disable test-lock.
* gnu/packages/gettext.scm (gettext-minimal)[source]: Ditto.
* gnu/packages/libidn.scm (libidn)[source]: Ditto.
* gnu/packages/libunistring.scm (libunistring)[source]: Ditto.
* gnu/packages/augeas.scm (augeas)[source]: Ditto.
* gnu/packages/gsasl.scm (gsasl)[source]: Ditto.
* gnu/packages/patches/findutils-gnulib-multi-core.patch,
gnu/packages/patches/gettext-gnulib-multi-core.patch,
gnu/packages/patches/gettext-multi-core.patch,
gnu/packages/patches/libunistring-gnulib-multi-core.patch: Delete patches.
* gnu/local.mk (DIST_PATCH_DATA): Remove them.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/base.scm')
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/base.scm17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index f6bc440a08..a6663c5cf6 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Rene Saavedra <rennes@openmailbox.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2017 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -262,11 +263,17 @@ interactive means to merge two files.")
               "178nn4dl7wbcw499czikirnkniwnx36argdnqgz4ik9i6zvwkm6y"))
             (patches (search-patches
                       "findutils-localstatedir.patch"
-                      "findutils-test-xargs.patch"
-                      ;; test-lock has performance issues on multi-core
-                      ;; machines, it hangs or takes a long time to complete.
-                      ;; This is a commit from gnulib to fix this issue.
-                      "findutils-gnulib-multi-core.patch"))))
+                      "findutils-test-xargs.patch"))
+            (modules '((guix build utils)))
+            (snippet
+             '(begin
+                ;; The gnulib test-lock test is prone to writer starvation
+                ;; with our glibc@2.25, which prefers readers, so disable it.
+                ;; The gnulib commit b20e8afb0b2 should fix this once
+                ;; incorporated here.
+                (substitute* "tests/Makefile.in"
+                  (("test-lock\\$\\(EXEEXT\\) ") ""))
+                #t))))
    (build-system gnu-build-system)
    (arguments
     `(#:configure-flags (list