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