Relatedly, might it be a good idea for at least the phab build bot tests to enable stuff like the tests that use vector and other widely used packages? On Apr 6, 2015 3:46 AM, "Thomas Miedema" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Konstantine, > > thanks for investigating this. I updated the wiki by removing those > packages from the list. > > The testsuite driver simply skips tests that depend on packages that are > not installed (dph-* in this case). I don't know what to about those tests > though, as dph is unmaintained and not in a working state. > > I someone really wanted to, they could try building ghc with > `BUILD_DPH=yes` in build.mk, then `cd testsuite/tests/dph`, remove all > `reqlib` calls to the deprecated dph-* packages in the `.T` files, run > `make test`, and see what happens. > > Please note that running the full testsuite in general results in lots of > failed tests. The continuous integration system only runs `make fasttest`. > > Thomas > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Konstantine Rybnikov <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> There’s «Additional Packages» section [0] which lists packages that need >> to be installed in order to run full testsuite. But I couldn’t install >> dph-* ones, first errors I was getting were regular cabal-constraint ones. >> I wrote an author Ben Lippmeier, but he replied that dph-* packages were >> obsolete and not maintained anymore. I grepped and saw that all tests are >> under testsuite/dph folder. So: does GHC still run them at all? Should we >> edit wiki? Or edit test-suite? >> >> Thanks! >> >> [0]: >> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/RunningTests/Running#AdditionalPackages >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > >
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