Eric Bavier <ericbavier@centurylink.net> writes:

> bavier pushed a commit to branch core-updates-next
> in repository guix.
>
> commit 5b01b6034aeab32a5011c5757f18bd9772d3497d
> Author: Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
> Date:   Thu Nov 1 21:18:41 2018 -0500
>
>     python: Honor '--cores=...' in tests.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-2.7)[arguments]: Add #:make-flags.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/python.scm | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> index 2b6a064..46ce0dd 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> @@ -190,6 +190,9 @@
>               "--enable-unicode=ucs4"
>               (string-append "LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath="
>                              (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)))
>  
>          #:modules ((ice-9 ftw) (ice-9 match)
>                     (guix build utils) (guix build gnu-build-system))

Hi Eric,

I'm having trouble building the python2 package on core-updates (which
was renamed from core-updates-next), and I think it relates to this
change.

This is roughly the issue I'm seeing:

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/guix-build-python2-2.7.15.drv-0/Python-2.7.15 ./python -Wd -3 -E -tt  ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -l -j12

  -l and -j don't go together!


Since all the python packages look to inherit from python-2.7 that's
being changed here, perhaps this worked for some of them (I know you
mentioned python-minimal in one message), but not all of them, or at
least python2?

Thanks,

Chris