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Re: [PATCH 0/1] Add lz4 (C implementation)
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: [PATCH 0/1] Add lz4 (C implementation) |
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Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:16:45 -0400 |
So, it is confirmed that parallel testing is not supposed to work:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lz4c/Egwtrrbb66M
"If you are talking about doing multiple `make test` in parallel,
then indeed, some tests involved writing, reading, and removing test
files from local directory,
so should multiple such operations happen randomly in parallel, there is
a high probability that it will not end well."
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015, at 17:26, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote:
> Guix contains a lot of software with build and test phases that take a
> very long time. When I was working on Qt it would take 5 GB of disk
> space and 6 hours to build every time. Though that was a pathological
> case and this program is tiny in comparison, I'd still say ~30 minutes
> is harmless. It's annoying, but that's the price of disciplined work.
In that case, I say we leave the tests in.