Yes, I agree, will file a bug this evening. On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:26 AM Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote:
> George Colpitts <george.colpi...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi Ben > > > > I built from source and ran the tests on my Mac and found some > > problems. I'm not sure if the failing tests have been ran successfully > > by others on this platform. I did "make slowtest". Maybe the problem > > only happens on my machine. > > > Currently Harbormaster only runs `make test`, not `make slowtest`. > Consequently, `slowtest` is generally rather broken, even on Linux. > Every once in a while I look at it and try to pare down the failures, > but it's an up-hill battle. > > > I'm new to running the testsuite and not sure how the sleep settings on > my > > computer affect long running computations. > > > > - If I want to run a long running test such as "make slowtest" > overnight > > will my computer go to sleep preventing the test from running? i.e. > should > > I invoke it with something like "caffeinate -i make slowtest" ? > > > That sounds right to me. > > > I almost didn't run the tests assuming they had been run as part of the > > release process but then I guessed that maybe slowtest had not been run. > It > > would be a pain but would it be worth documenting which tests had been > run > > on which platforms? > > > I currently don't validate the binary distribution tarballs. Instead I > judge validation state from Harbormaster's testing of the ghc-8.2 > branch. > > Over the summer we intend on revamping our CI infrastructure, which > should make it easier to do nightly runs of slowtest (and perhaps > provide nightly or even per-commit binary distributions). > > > I assume I should file a bug for the following? > > > That would be great. I had a quick look at this and it looks quite > likely that the simplifier is looping: even -fsimpl-tick-factor=1000 > doesn't succeed. This looks like a real regression. > > Cheers, > > - Ben > >
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