On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:50:37 +0000
Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:

> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:
> 
> > Eric Bavier <ericbavier@centurylink.net> writes:
> >  
> >> diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> >> index 2b6a064..46ce0dd 100644
> >> --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
> >> +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> >> @@ -190,6 +190,9 @@
> >>               "--enable-unicode=ucs4"
> >>               (string-append "LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath="
> >>                              (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/lib"))
> >> +       ;; With no -j argument tests use all available cpus, so provide one.
> >> +       #:make-flags
> >> +       (list (format #f "EXTRATESTOPTS=-j~d" (parallel-job-count)))
> >>  
> >>          #:modules ((ice-9 ftw) (ice-9 match)
> >>                     (guix build utils) (guix build gnu-build-system))  
> >
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > I'm having trouble building the python2 package on core-updates (which
> > was renamed from core-updates-next), and I think it relates to this
> > change.
> >
> > This is roughly the issue I'm seeing:
> >
> >   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/guix-build-python2-2.7.15.drv-0/Python-2.7.15 ./python -Wd -3 -E -tt  ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -l -j12
> >
> >   -l and -j don't go together!
> >
> >
> > Since all the python packages look to inherit from python-2.7 that's
> > being changed here, perhaps this worked for some of them (I know you
> > mentioned python-minimal in one message), but not all of them, or at
> > least python2?  
> 
> Just got around to testing this, moving this change to python-3.7, from
> python-2.7 fixes the python-2.7 build for me, but I haven't checked
> how that affects how many cores are actually used when running the tests.

Strange.  I recall testing this patch on both python2 and python.  Not
sure what has changed since then.

`~Eric