Re: 01/01: gnu: gmp: Disable parallel tests.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> commit 4165fda29dcab7ae0a4cdb11d88dfe80a21c9c1d
> Author: Andreas Enge <address@hidden>
> Date:   Sat Dec 12 14:40:37 2015 +0100
>
>     gnu: gmp: Disable parallel tests.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm (gmp)[arguments]: Disable parallel 
> tests.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm b/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm
> index 008d8c0..3be612a 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm
> @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@
>     (build-system gnu-build-system)
>     (native-inputs `(("m4" ,m4)))
>     (outputs '("out" "debug"))
> -   (arguments `(#:configure-flags
> +   (arguments `(#:parallel-tests? #f ; mpz/reuse fails otherwise

Are you sure there’s such problem, or is it more of a suspicion?  :-)

I’m asking because since GMP tests do mostly (only?) computations, I
thought there could not be problems due to parallel runs (as opposed to,
say, Guix’s tests, which have side effects.)

Ludo’.