From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bavier Subject: Re: [PATCH] build-system/perl: Add handling of flags for parallel build and testing. Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:56:30 -0500 Message-ID: <87lhowx475.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20140827102347.GA19935@debian> <87iolektnr.fsf@gnu.org> <20141003202500.GA11277@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58091) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xa9sW-0008Ca-BF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:55:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xa9sR-0008Vh-BM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:55:04 -0400 In-reply-to: <20141003202500.GA11277@debian> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge writes: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 02:23:52PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> > * guix/build-system/perl.scm (perl-build): Add support for variables >> > parallel-build? and parallel-tests?. >> Yes, and could you also do that change in python.scm? > > There I would not know what to do, as the python build system uses > "setup.py" and not "make". >From what I've seen, it would be difficult to extend parallel testing to python packages, because the method to accomplish this would depend on the testing framework the package uses. I don't know that setuptools has any way to build in parallel. I could be wrong. -- Eric Bavier Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html