How to run the testsuite with an out of tree compiler?

[Matthew Pickering]

I managed to hack something together by directly using `make` and
hardcoding some paths. Now happily running the testsuite..

Cheers,

Matt

On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 9:41 AM Matthew Pickering
<matthewtpickering at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to run `ghcide` on GHC's tests.
>
> The documentation says that I should pass `--test-compiler=..` to
> hadrian in order to do this. When I do this however it starts trying
> to configure a bunch of packages and starting to build stuff.
>
> I don't want hadrian to build anything, I just want it to use my
> patched version of GHC when running certain tests!
>
> How can I achieve this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt