From a0bbe58a194934f4f503f3215a5a40e6b112c79e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:17:23 +0100
Subject: coreutils: Disable parallel building

---
 pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils')

diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
index e5f9eb1be2c0..b0dbb049cbf7 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ let
     # and {Open,Free}BSD.
     doCheck = stdenv ? glibc;
 
-    enableParallelBuilding = true;
+    # Saw random failures like ‘help2man: can't get '--help' info from
+    # man/sha512sum.td/sha512sum’.
+    enableParallelBuilding = false;
 
     NIX_LDFLAGS = optionalString selinuxSupport "-lsepol";
 
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