From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Gmp 6.1 in core-updates Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 18:58:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4czzgyz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151212132742.GA5098@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58529) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7oRW-0004YL-SO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 12:58:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7oRT-0004PY-O7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 12:58:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20151212132742.GA5098@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:27:42 +0100") 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 skribis: > I just had a quick look at gmp-6.1.0, to which I updated in core-updates, > and which causes failures on arm. > > When trying to build from hand with "make check -j 4", I got the followin= g: > make[4]: *** No rule to make target '../libgmp.la', needed by 't-bswap'. = Stop. > make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > Apparently, the checks were started before the library was compiled. > > Well, that is not what we do. But it raises suspicions whether a parallel > build works. This is weird, but indeed, not what gnu-build-system does. > Then I tried "make -j 4", which completed, followed by "make -j 4 check". > One of the tests fails: > FAIL: reuse > See tests/mpz/test-suite.log Isn=E2=80=99t it again an instance of presumed overheating, as discussed in ? These tests are purely computational AFAIK, so I don=E2=80=99t see how runn= ing tests in parallel could possibly lead to failures. WDYT? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99. PS: Forget my other message on this subject, which I sent before reading yours.