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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2021-12-04 11:25:53 -0800
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2021-12-04 12:58:28 -0800
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Add --with-timeoutfactor=NUM to specify TIMEOUTFACTOR
On Ice Lake and Tiger Lake laptops, some test programs timeout when there
are 3 "make check -j8" runs in parallel.  Add --with-timeoutfactor=NUM to
specify an integer to scale the timeout of test programs, which can be
overriden by TIMEOUTFACTOR environment variable.

Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ if 'CFLAGS' is specified it must enable optimization.  For example:
      particular case and potentially change debugging information and
      metadata only).
 
+'--with-timeoutfactor=NUM'
+     Specify an integer NUM to scale the timeout of test programs.  This
+     factor can be changed at run time using 'TIMEOUTFACTOR' environment
+     variable.
+
 '--disable-shared'
      Don't build shared libraries even if it is possible.  Not all
      systems support shared libraries; you need ELF support and