Hi -
I find the following patch makes make checks bearable again.
>From 0acce289fbb9c4da6a6ec1868eed5ede5a62e63d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <f...@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 13:41:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] tests/test-subr.sh: Put test_dir under /var/tmp.
Every individual test in elfutils involves a temporary directory.
Previous version of this script put that directory under the build
tree. That's OK if it's a local disk, but if it's on NFS, then some
tests - run-large-elf-file.sh, several run-debuginfod-*.sh - take long
enough to run to fail tests intermittently.
This patch moves the temp_dir under ${TMPDIR-/var/tmp/}, so it
operates at local disk speed rather than whatever-build-filesystem
speed. Individual test scripts are all unaffected. (One could
consider /tmp instead, which is a RAM disk on modern systems, except
that some of the elfutils tests produce GB-sized temporary files.
That's probably too big for RAM.)
Signed-off-by: Frank Ch. Eigler <f...@redhat.com>
---
tests/test-subr.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tests/test-subr.sh b/tests/test-subr.sh
index 411e5f288acd..68ef541f8632 100644
--- a/tests/test-subr.sh
+++ b/tests/test-subr.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
set -e
# Each test runs in its own directory to make sure they can run in parallel.
-test_dir="test-$$"
+test_dir="${TMPDIR-/var/tmp}/test-$$"
mkdir -p "$test_dir"
cd "$test_dir"
--
2.46.2
