On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:33:03PM -0700, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:40:01AM -0500, David Roundy wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:53:39PM -0700, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I help maintain the darcs RPM for Fedora and we seem to have encountered > > > a interesting bug. I'm not sure if it is in the darcs build process or > > > part of GHC. > > > > > > In the development branch of Fedora the ghc version is currently 6.8.1 > > > and stock darcs 1.0.9 does not build with ghc 6.8.1. I have applied the > > > unstable patches from http://bugs.darcs.net/issue544 to address this and > > > darcs builds just fine and all tests succeed on i386. > > > > > > But when we look at the PPC build, it builds fine but the tests start > > > failing. You can see the full build log here: > > > > > > > > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=266871&name=build.log > > > > > > I do not know if this is a failure on my part, or a darcs bug or a GHC > > > issue or if it is something else. I could use a bit of advice, and I'll > > > be happy to put this in the bug tracker if it is a darcs issue. > > > > Could you try running make test_shell? I find the shell-script tests more > > helpful for tracking down problems. Thanks for the report! (And hopefully > > soon we'll get a ghc 6.8-support stable release out...) > > test_shell does not seem to be valid make target in stock 1.0.9, there's > 'unit'. Trackdown suggests that the test_shell target was added around > Oct 3 and seems to have about 199 patch dependencies, so that's not an > easy option to apply to stock 1.0.9 to rule things out. I put in a > test_unit instead and its results can be seen here > > curl > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=268980&name=build.log > > If anyone has a patch to 1.0.9 to apply the test_shell target and the > associated tests without affecting the 1.0.9 code I'll be happy to give > it a try. My darcs skills aren't up to correctly cherry picking the > required changesets.
Sorry about that, I forgot these had been split later. You could just comment out the perl scripts in the makefile (or even just run rm tests/*.pl before running make check). > I don't have direct access to a PPC machine right now to investigate > this directly, I can just submit the build requests to the fedora build > system. Oh, that's awkward. :( Perhaps someone with a PPC machine could run some tests for you? -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University
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