[C2hs] Request to C2HS users

[Ian Ross]

No, nothing as clever as that.  I took the strictly low-rent route of only
testing that the regression suite packages successfully build.  I don't run
the package test suites, so I don't need to run any CUDA code.  What I'd
been finding was that most of the problems I'd been seeing with C2HS were
things that would be picked up just by trying to build the packages -- out
of all the problems I've seen recently, all of them were either related to
problems parsing C headers or the CHS files themselves, or to generating
invalid Haskell code.  I've yet to see a single problem where C2HS
generates Haskell code that compiles but doesn't work.  Also, I didn't even
know that such a thing as a CUDA emulator existed!  Now that I do, maybe
I'll experiment a bit when I have time and see if I can run the regression
suite package test cases as well...


On 19 May 2014 17:15, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, did you use a CUDA emulator on Travis?  (What is the best one these
> days?)
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Ian Ross <ian at skybluetrades.net> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ryan,
>>
>> I got the cuda package (and cufft and OpenCL) building on Travis without
>> too much trouble, after a bit of experimentation on an EC2 instance with
>> the same Linux build as Travis uses.  It was easier than I thought it would
>> be, and the CUDA installation process seems to be getting easier over time,
>> so supporting this sort of thing for newer versions of CUDA should be easy.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 16 May 2014 07:59, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Sorry for long-delayed response.
>>>
>>> Yes, some of our jobs do happen to install accelerate-cuda (like this
>>> one<http://tester-lin.soic.indiana.edu:8080/job/accelerate-multidev/229/>,
>>> and this one<http://tester-lin.soic.indiana.edu:8080/job/HackageReleased_meta-par-accelerate_CUDA/501/JENKINS_GHC=7.6.3,label=linux-cuda/console>).
>>>  We don't have a dedicated set of tests for accelerate-cuda itself.  (But
>>> we should soon.  I hope to test all backend ends uniformly.)
>>>
>>> We have a pretty heterogeneous config in terms of cuda installs.  Most
>>> of our tests run on a set of machines that still have CUDA 4.2, but my own
>>> work-station and laptop have 5.5.
>>>
>>>  Cheers,
>>>   -Ryan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Manuel M T Chakravarty <
>>> chak at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ian,
>>>>
>>>> We haven’t build the cuda package in a CI environment, but Ryan Newton
>>>> has Accelerate in on a CI server.
>>>>
>>>> Ryan, are you building with the CUDA backend?
>>>>
>>>> Ian, I’m not sure what you mean by CUDA version 6. I believe the latest
>>>> CUDA release from NVIDIA is 5.5.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Manuel
>>>>
>>>> Ian Ross <ian at skybluetrades.net>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Manuel (and/or Trevor!),
>>>>
>>>> Have you had any luck in building CUDA on Travis or any other CI
>>>> environment?  I've not managed to build it on my desktop machine, but
>>>> that's mostly due to not having an NVIDIA card and to being on Arch Linux,
>>>> where the current CUDA install is version 6 instead of 5...  This C2HS
>>>> regression suite idea has already turned out to be useful, catching a
>>>> couple of silly little bugs I'd introduced, and I'd really like to include
>>>> as many packages as possible, and to have it run as a CI test.
>>>>
>>>> I'll have a try on Travis myself, but it would be useful to know if
>>>> you've already figured out what's needed.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Ian.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2 April 2014 06:43, Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak at cse.unsw.edu.au>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Good plan! Please include
>>>>>
>>>>>   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cuda
>>>>>
>>>>> Manuel
>>>>>
>>>>> Ian Ross <ian at skybluetrades.net>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to make a list of packages that depend on C2HS, in order to
>>>>> make a regression suite to test new releases.  I slightly broke things in
>>>>> the last release and only found out about it when people started reporting
>>>>> regressions when trying to build packages that use C2HS.  The number of
>>>>> moving parts involved make it difficult to write a test suite with full
>>>>> coverage, so the best approach seems to be to make a list of packages and
>>>>> make sure that these all build before doing a release.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've not been able to figure out a way to do reverse dependency
>>>>> searches on Hackage for build tools, hence the email.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have a package that uses C2HS that you'd like added to the
>>>>> regression suite, let me know.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ian.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Ian Ross   Tel: +43(0)6804451378   ian at skybluetrades.net
>>>>> www.skybluetrades.net
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