From d6ed71cbf4cdf01f69189459e782fabdf0f92525 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:59:33 +0200
Subject: distro: Build Bash sequentially.

* distro/packages/base.scm (bash): Set `#:parallel-build?' and
  `#:parallel-tests?' to #f.
---
 distro/packages/base.scm | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/distro/packages/base.scm b/distro/packages/base.scm
index dcb1ca20c8..e21d4d5667 100644
--- a/distro/packages/base.scm
+++ b/distro/packages/base.scm
@@ -958,6 +958,12 @@ without Readline in applications which desire its capabilities.")
                               (assoc-ref %build-inputs "ncurses")
                               "/lib"))
 
+        ;; Bash is reportedly not parallel-safe.  See, for instance,
+        ;; <http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/32745/> and
+        ;; <http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?h=79e2d802ae7e376a413c02097790493e1f65c3a4>.
+        #:parallel-build? #f
+        #:parallel-tests? #f
+
         ;; XXX: The tests have a lot of hard-coded paths, so disable them
         ;; for now.
         #:tests? #f
-- 
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