> FWIW, I had some validate failures under windows dependening 
> on which shell I used.  I have to check again which one it 
> was, though.

For information, my shell is:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/ghc-build/ghc
$ help
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(20)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)

And I now am down to one failure:

Unexpected failures:
   break008(ghci)

Thanks

Neil

> 
> 2008/10/22 Mitchell, Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi
> >
> >
> >> > Could it be that buffering has a different default on Windows?
> >>
> >> 2228 is now an expected failure on Windows.  See #2628.
> >
> > Fair enough.
> >
> >> > As a secondary issue, it appears that the failure reports
> >> are occuring
> >> > after the script has started to print out information about
> >> the next
> >> > test.
> >>
> >> That's probably because the testsuite is running in 
> parallel, which 
> >> it does automatically when validating if you have a new enough 
> >> version of Python.
> >
> > That sounds reasonable. Perhaps on writing an error message to the 
> > log, the script could always write out "*** unexpected failure for 
> > break008(ghci)" both _before_ and after the test fail 
> report - so its 
> > immediately clear which test is failing. Then again, I 
> think it's the 
> > kind of thing that will only confuse someone once :-)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Neil
> >
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