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diff --git a/gnu/packages/gettext.scm b/gnu/packages/gettext.scm
index 76c01b1e09..51b772a586 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gettext.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gettext.scm
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2016 Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2017 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -47,12 +48,18 @@
(sha256
(base32
"0hsw28f9q9xaggjlsdp2qmbp2rbd1mp0njzan2ld9kiqwkq2m57z"))
- ;; test-lock has performance issues on multi-core machines,
- ;; it hangs or takes a long time to complete.
- ;; There is one commit in gettext and one commit
- ;; in gettext's embedded gnulib to fix this issue.
- (patches (search-patches "gettext-multi-core.patch"
- "gettext-gnulib-multi-core.patch"))))
+ (modules '((guix build utils)))
+ (snippet
+ '(begin
+ ;; The gnulib test-lock test is prone to writer starvation
+ ;; with our glibc@2.25, which prefers readers, so disable it.
+ ;; The gnulib commit b20e8afb0b2 should fix this once
+ ;; incorporated here.
+ (substitute* "gettext-runtime/tests/Makefile.in"
+ (("TESTS = test-lock\\$\\(EXEEXT\\)") "TESTS ="))
+ (substitute* "gettext-tools/gnulib-tests/Makefile.in"
+ (("test-lock\\$\\(EXEEXT\\) ") ""))
+ #t))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(outputs '("out"
"doc")) ;8 MiB of HTML