Re: Spurious failure building apr-utils in core-updates

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> I encountered a spurious failure while building apr-utils in
> core-updates on x86_64.  Simply repeating the same build completed
> successfully, with the same hash as the failed.  Here's the log tail of
> the failure:

[...]

> /gnu/store/z8adi2ci2ygaqaykfr537jly2fxq4vh4-bash-4.3/bin/bash /gnu/store/nfycgk0b18bka5s7j6pa4i9zvqgmfczb-apr-1.4.8/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -pthread   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLINUX -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE   -I/tmp/nix-build-apr-util-1.5.2.drv-1/apr-util-1.5.2/include -I/tmp/nix-build-apr-util-1.5.2.drv-1/apr-util-1.5.2/include/private  -I/gnu/store/nfycgk0b18bka5s7j6pa4i9zvqgmfczb-apr-1.4.8/include/apr-1  -I/tmp/nix-build-apr-util-1.5.2.drv-1/apr-util-1.5.2/xml/expat/lib      -no-install  -o testall abts.lo testutil.lo teststrmatch.lo testuri.lo testuuid.lo testbuckets.lo testpass.lo testmd4.lo testmd5.lo testldap.lo testdate.lo testdbm.lo testdbd.lo testxml.lo testrmm.lo testreslist.lo testqueue.lo testxlate.lo testmemcache.lo testcrypto.lo ../libaprutil-1.la /tmp/nix-build-apr-util-1.5.2.drv-1/apr-util-1.5.2/xml/expat/libexpat.la /gnu/store/nfycgk0b18bka5s7j6pa4i9zvqgmfczb-apr-1.4.8/lib/libapr-1.la -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl 
> libtool: link: `testmemcache.lo' is not a valid libtool object
> Makefile:50: recipe for target 'testall' failed
> make[2]: *** [testall] Error 1

That sounds like a parallel build issue.

Could you try adding #:parallel-tests? #f?

Ludo’.