On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 22:56:27 +0000
Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:

> ericbavier@centurylink.net writes:
> 
> > From: Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
> >
> > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-2.7)[arguments]: 'EXTRATESTOPTS' ->
> > 'TESTOPTS'.  This overrides the default '-l' argument for memory leak checks
> > which is not compatible with the -j for parallelism.
> > ---
> >  gnu/packages/python.scm | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> > index 9b43f465cc..dffded738d 100644
> > --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
> > +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> > @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
> >                              (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/lib"))
> >         ;; With no -j argument tests use all available cpus, so provide one.
> >         #:make-flags
> > -       (list (format #f "EXTRATESTOPTS=-j~d" (parallel-job-count)))
> > +       (list (format #f "TESTOPTS=-j~d" (parallel-job-count)))
> >
> >          #:modules ((ice-9 ftw) (ice-9 match)
> >                     (guix build utils) (guix build gnu-build-system))  
> 
> Hey Eric,
> 
> I've also been looking at some Python 2 things on core-updates today,
> trying to get the linkchecker package building again.
> 
> I've just pushed a slightly different patch, but to this effect to
> core-updates, and only just seen this message, sorry about that.

Not a problem.

> 
> Thanks for looking at it though, this approach is probably neater, as I
> used substitute* instead.
> 

Would you like to keep your patch, or apply this one instead?

`~Eric