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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm index f6bc440a08..a6663c5cf6 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2017 Rene Saavedra <rennes@openmailbox.org> ;;; Copyright © 2017 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2017 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> +;;; Copyright © 2017 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -262,11 +263,17 @@ interactive means to merge two files.") "178nn4dl7wbcw499czikirnkniwnx36argdnqgz4ik9i6zvwkm6y")) (patches (search-patches "findutils-localstatedir.patch" - "findutils-test-xargs.patch" - ;; test-lock has performance issues on multi-core - ;; machines, it hangs or takes a long time to complete. - ;; This is a commit from gnulib to fix this issue. - "findutils-gnulib-multi-core.patch")))) + "findutils-test-xargs.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* "tests/Makefile.in" + (("test-lock\\$\\(EXEEXT\\) ") "")) + #t)))) (build-system gnu-build-system) (arguments `(#:configure-flags (list |