I've now tried a build strictly according to the instructions, which is to say, I installed the binary distribution, then haskell-platform on top of it, before building GHC from source. I get the same errors, plus a few more (I did the quick build rather than the fully optimized default build, so maybe that's why; most of the extra failures are from perf/compiler and say "stat not good enough"). Out of curiosity, I unpacked the bindist tarball afresh and ran the failed tests on it. They also failed (the third one in a few more ways):
Unexpected failures: lib/Time T5430 [bad stdout] (normal,hpc,optasm,profasm,threaded1,threaded2,dyn,profthreaded) lib/Time T5430 [bad stdout or stderr] (ghci) All this makes me think there is something wrong with my setup. I'd be very grateful if anyone has any suggestions - or if this is the wrong place for these questions, where would be a better place. Tim On 09/12/2012, tim.beech <tim.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm making a GHC package for Salix 14 (which is backwards-compatible with > Slackware, so this will be a Slackware package, too). > > The main thing I'd be grateful for advice on is the overall approach I'm > taking to the package. Others I've seen (such as the Arch package) just > assume GHC is already present. > > My build script unpacks the binary distribution for "unknown linux" and > builds GHC against that. (Both are version 7.4.2.) I have avoided > installing anything else (such as the Haskell Platform) so as to keep as > close as possible to the ideal of a package as a transparent, > reproducible process that only depends on the source. As far as I can > tell from the build prerequisites > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Tools > > the only consequence is that documentation is only created as html, not > pdf and ps as well. > > Though everything seems to work ok, the build as it stands fails three > tests: > > Unexpected failures: > lib/Time T5430 [bad stdout] (normal) > perf/compiler parsing001 [stat not good enough] (normal) > simplCore/should_compile spec-inline [stderr mismatch] (optasm) > > That is after running the fast version of the test suite, which the > documentation says should pass 100%. > > My second question is, do these results suggest anything as to where the > problem may lie, and how important it is? > > When I then installed the new package and built the Haskell Platform > against it (using the build script at http://slackbuilds.org), although > the installation nonetheless appeared to be succesful, the build script > failed at the very end where it tries to do > > ghc-pkg recache > > When I did this manually, I discovered root permissions were needed. Is > that normal? > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
