[bug#73135] [PATCH] Enable parallel tests for GTK

[The Man <squishypinkelephant@gmail.com>]

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Sounds like a good idea to me.

On Fri, Oct 4, 2024, 10:14 AM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The Man <squishypinkelephant@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > In the middle of testing a set of patches that caused a large number of
> > rebuilds, I noticed the gtk package was taking an obscenely long time to
> > run checks. Upon inspection I found out it was not running tests as
> > parallel.
> > For example, https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/5623913/details took >3000!
> > seconds.
> > The fix is obvious and will save time on future rebuilds.
> > diff --git a/gnu/packages/gtk.scm b/gnu/packages/gtk.scm
> > index 3d4766713d..f0f6a0cd9a 100644
> > --- a/gnu/packages/gtk.scm
> > +++ b/gnu/packages/gtk.scm
> > @@ -1195,6 +1195,7 @@ (define-public gtk
> >                                          (string=? (%current-system)
> "aarch64-linux"))
> >                                     "--no-suite=wayland_gles2_failing"
> >                                     "--no-suite=wayland_gles_failing"))
> > +      #:parallel-tests? #t
>
> I wonder why #:parallel-tests? defaults to #f in ‘meson-build-system’,
> contrary to what other build systems do.
>
> I think we should create a branch where we change it to #t, and merge it
> once we’re done rebuilding all the packages and fixing any relevant
> failure.
>
> Would you like to give that a try?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>

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