Re: [PATCH] add address@hidden

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 07:52:08PM -0400, Matthew Jordan wrote:
>> * gnu/packages/golang.scm (go-1.5): New variable.
>
> I don't have the knowledge to comment on the Go specific stuff in this
> package, but I have some more general comments.
>
> The tests 'runtime' and 'cmd/go' failed due to the default 3 minute
> time-limit when building on my slow machine, this thing:
> <http://pcengines.ch/apu2b4.htm>
>
> They passed in 193 and 216 seconds, respectively, when I set the
> environment variable GO_TEST_TIMEOUT_SCALE to 9999, as suggested in this
> bug report: <https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12404>

We should set GO_TEST_TIMEOUT_SCALE=9999 (or similar) before the ‘check’
phase to avoid spurious failures on slow or loaded build machines, too.

Ludo’.