[libvirt] [PATCH] build: drop a painfully long gnulib test

[Michal Privoznik]

On 21.03.2012 00:14, Eric Blake wrote:
> On machines with massive amounts of CPUs, the gnulib 'test-lock'
> could take minutes, or even appear to deadlock, because of timing
> interactions between multiple cores.
> 
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797284.
> For precedence, note that iwhd has done the same:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-01/msg00311.html
> 
> We can re-enable things if gnulib ever analyzes and improves the
> situation.
> 
> * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_tool_option_extras): Avoid lock-tests.
> ---
> 
> Personally, I haven't run into the problem on my 2-core laptop;
> where do I sign up for one of the 2048-core machines in that BZ? :)
> But since I haven't seen it, I can't push this under the trivial
> rule, so I'll wait for a review.
> 
>  bootstrap.conf |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
> index 03da267..c6f7fd9 100644
> --- a/bootstrap.conf
> +++ b/bootstrap.conf
> @@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ gnulib_tool_option_extras="\
>   --with-tests\
>   --makefile-name=gnulib.mk\
>   --avoid=pt_chown\
> + --avoid=lock-tests\
>  "
>  local_gl_dir=gnulib/local
> 

ACK, if user's system can't lock properly he would experience problems
regardless running libvirt.

Michal