[bug#73135] [PATCH] Enable parallel tests for GTK

[The Man]

Sounds like a good idea to me.

On Fri, Oct 4, 2024, 10:14 AM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

Hi,

The Man <squishypinkelephant@gmail.com> skribis:

> In the middle of testing a set of patches that caused a large number of
> rebuilds, I noticed the gtk package was taking an obscenely long time to
> run checks. Upon inspection I found out it was not running tests as
> parallel.
> For example, https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/5623913/details took >3000!
> seconds.
> The fix is obvious and will save time on future rebuilds.
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/gtk.scm b/gnu/packages/gtk.scm
> index 3d4766713d..f0f6a0cd9a 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/gtk.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/gtk.scm
> @@ -1195,6 +1195,7 @@ (define-public gtk
>                                          (string=? (%current-system) "aarch64-linux"))
>                                     "--no-suite=wayland_gles2_failing"
>                                     "--no-suite=wayland_gles_failing"))
> +      #:parallel-tests? #t

I wonder why #:parallel-tests? defaults to #f in ‘meson-build-system’,
contrary to what other build systems do.

I think we should create a branch where we change it to #t, and merge it
once we’re done rebuilding all the packages and fixing any relevant
failure.

Would you like to give that a try?

Thanks,
Ludo’.