[bug#45721] Telegram Desktop (v27)

[Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>]

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On 31.01.21 15:10, Leo Prikler wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> Am Sonntag, den 31.01.2021, 14:57 +0100 schrieb Jonathan Brielmaier:
>> Hi Raghav,
>>
>> thanks for your hard work on Telegram! I always avoided it as I know
>> from openSUSE packaging that it's quite a bunch for work...
>>
>> `libchewing` has FAILs in the test suite when building with my
>> standard
>> 12 cores:
>> test-easy-symbol
>> test-fullshape
>>
>> When building with `--cores=1` the test suite passes, maybe we should
>> set the build on parallel. It doesn't take much longer...
>>
>> ~Jonathan
> If you're willing to write up a patch, I'd be happy to push that for
> you.  It seems libchewing fails on CI as well.  Is that the same issue
> you're experiencing or is it a different one?

On i686 and aarch64 are the same both tests mentioned above failing.

So I guess a `#:parallel-tests? #f` is the best solution here. Attached
is my patch, which I would push later if you have no objections...

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From 67286626b74daff396c33fe9d8fca6f77f58642b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 17:47:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: libchewing: Disable parallel tests.

Some tests fail constant when building with multiple threads.

* gnu/packages/language.scm (libchewing)[arguments]: Set
`parallel-tests` to false.
---
 gnu/packages/language.scm | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/language.scm b/gnu/packages/language.scm
index 67b519aa56..ed6c0e6686 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/language.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/language.scm
@@ -287,7 +287,9 @@ Random Cage Fighting Birds, Cool Music etc.")
         (base32 "04d09w6xdd08v6laj9y4qmqsijw5i2jvshcilhh4vg6cfnfgl2my"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (arguments
-     `(#:phases
+      ;; test-easy-symbol and test-fullshape fail with multiple cores.
+     `(#:parallel-tests? #f
+       #:phases
        (modify-phases %standard-phases
          (add-after 'unpack 'disable-failing-tests
            (lambda _
-- 
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