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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer" <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Add lz4 (C implementation)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:16:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1441837005.2910490.379313313.5F75FF46@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbbj5lo3.fsf@T420.taylan>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-09 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-09 21:04 [PATCH 0/1] Add lz4 (C implementation) Leo Famulari
2015-09-09 21:04 ` [PATCH 1/1] gnu: Add lz4 Leo Famulari
2015-09-09 21:26 ` [PATCH 0/1] Add lz4 (C implementation) Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-09-09 22:16   ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2015-09-13 10:10 ` Ludovic Courtès

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