Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add threadingbuildingblocks.

[ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>]

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is> writes:
>
>> +    (arguments
>> +     `(;; XXX: make 'check' is run with 'make all', however the 'all' phase takes
>> +       ;; 30+ minutes on a AMD FX-4300 Quad-Core Processor buildmachine.
>> +       #:tests? #f
>
> 30 minutes isn't bad, we have packages that takes longer. As long as it
> prints something to the console, it won't time out on slow machines
> either (but they will hopefully get substitutes from Hydra!).

I suspect it will be much longer, but I can enable it and let it run
today, see how much computing time it takes.

> The #:test-target seems to be 'test', by the way.
>
>> +    (inputs
>> +     `(("python" ,python)))
>
> Does it reference python at runtime, or is it only used for building?

runtime:
<DD>Build, install, and test Python* API for Intel TBB. See <A HREF="../python/index.html">details here</A>.

> You can check for references with `guix gc -R /gnu/store/<item>`.
>
>> Thanks, that's what I had at first. What about the product name, what is
>> it described as? Should I refer to debians description? I remember we
>> don't include © and ® in synopsis and description, but company name +
>> product works?
>
> I think I would phrase it as: "Threading Building Blocks (Intel TBB) is
> a C++ library for writing parallel programs that take full advantage of
> multicore performance."

Okay

> ~marius
>

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