[bug#43745] [PATCH 04/27] gnu: ocaml-migrate-parsetree: Update to 1.7.3.

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Julien,

Wow!  Thank you for this detailed investigation.


On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 04:03, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:

> So, my hypothesis is that dune is building files out of order, but lets
> ocaml read the generated cmi files.  Since the build is not in order,
> when it builds the same file in two different builds, the cmi are not
> the same and the result is different.  Since dune will always use all
> my cores, I used a trick I learned from LFS:
>
> echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
> (and similar for every other core, except cpu0)
>
> This way, I have a single-core machine and, hopefully, dune runs
> sequentially. This time, --rounds=2 passed (after removing the existing
> store item of course).

Where do you this “echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online“ to
disable all except cpu0?  Because, I have tried as root on my 4 cpu
machine and then “./pre-inst-env guix build ocaml-migrate-parsetree
–no-grafts –check“ still returns an error.


Cheers,
simon