Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> 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’.
