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Subject: bug#18262: perl-tk intermittent failures due to parallel build
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:04:43 +0200
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 04:20:47PM -0400, mhw@netris.org wrote:
>> I tried to add #:parallel-build #f to the arguments, but that flag seems
>> to be unsupported in the perl-build-system, even though it is almost
>> identical to the gnu-build-system.
>
> I think the following (untested) patch adds support for the flag:
>
> diff --git a/guix/build-system/perl.scm b/guix/build-system/perl.scm
> index 5695491..515ca90 100644
> --- a/guix/build-system/perl.scm
> +++ b/guix/build-system/perl.scm
> @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ provides a `Makefile.PL' file as its build system."
>                     #:system ,system
>                     #:test-target "test"
>                     #:tests? ,tests?
> +                   #:parallel-build? ,parallel-build?
>                     #:outputs %outputs
>                     #:inputs %build-inputs)))

Yes, indeed.

> If it does, we might add #:parallel-tests? at the same time.

Yes.

Could you do it?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.