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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/base.scm6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index 102a9659c2..ac059870e2 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -388,7 +388,11 @@ included.")
 
    (arguments
     `(#:out-of-source? #t
-      #:parallel-build? #f ; There's at least one race in the build.
+
+      ;; In version 2.21, there a race in the 'elf' directory, see
+      ;; <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-02/msg00709.html>.
+      #:parallel-build? #f
+
       #:configure-flags
       (list "--enable-add-ons"
             "--sysconfdir=/etc"