Hi Simon.

DOC STUFF

Thanks for your suggestion:

| Also, the SGMLDocWays test in the install-docs rule isn't necessary, as
| far as I can tell.  I suggest we remove this, and change the test in the
| binary-dist rule to look at $(DOCBOOK_CATALOG) instead.

I carried out those mods and built; it worked as required with no doc tools
available.

| Also, you committed directly to ghc-6-2-branch, which is something we
| don't normally do.  "Standard Practice" is to commit to the HEAD and
| then merge to the branch (or put a note in the log message and I'll do
| the merge).

Again I've committed the change you suggested against your stated preference
as I had no way of testing and possibly further modifying the HEAD etc etc
before you close 6.2.1 on Monday - it also means the change gets tested on
the normal build systems over the weekend.  Hope you'll forgive the
indiscretion on that basis - I'll try and be a better citizen in future!

The diff that went in is as follows - I'll aim to put it into HEAD next week
after I've tested it in that source tree:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
$ cvs diff Makefile
Enter passphrase for key '/home/miketh/.ssh/id_dsa':
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/root/fptools/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.100.2.2
diff -r1.100.2.2 Makefile
122d121
< ifneq "$(SGMLDocWays)" ""
130d128
< endif
263c261
< ifneq "$(SGMLDocWays)" ""
---
> ifneq "$(DOCBOOK_CATALOG)" ""

---------------------------------------------------------------------


TEST STUFF ON WINDOWS

As you're about to close for 6.2.1 I thought I'd run the regression tests in
my stable test build today as well -  the log should make it onto this
mailing list.

The network stuff has troubles - net002 in particular just hangs
indefinitely (overnight in fact, until I kill explicitly) and further along
the line there are a number of ghc compiler crashes which are unfortunately
not reflected as such in the test log posted - I keep having to tell XP not
to notify Microsoft when the crash requestor comes up.  On the other hand
perhaps they would kindly pass the messages on to Cambridge!?

The overall test system doesn't really work on Windows (as I'm sure you're
aware) due to improper handling of CR/LF line endings and improperly
interpreted exit values.

In other words, most of the failures are not really failures at all.

Unfortunately I'm not best descibed as "Mr Perl" and the preliminary mods
I've made in my local HEAD source tree (ie not yet checked in) have only
slightly dented the false negatives on Windows.

I do think this an area which urgently needs attention from some expert
Windows Perl hacker though, as clearly there are undetected problems on
Windows (at least on my particular computer).

Similar comments apply to fixing the the nofib tests which are equally
important in my opinion (although if memory serves there are no crashes
there).

Cheers

Mike Thomas.


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