[commit: testsuite] master: Explain skipping compiler-perf tests when debugging is on (14958ae)

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 02.12.2013, 09:53 +0000 schrieb Simon Marlow:
> Oh, we use the same variable name GhcDebugged to mean two different 
> things: in the GHC build system it means that GHC was compiled with 
> -debug, but in the testsuite build system it means that GHC was compiled 
> with -DDEBUG.  How confusing!
> 
> Anyway you're right - there doesn't seem to be a bug, but we should 
> rename things to avoid confusion.  I'll do that.
> 
> > So it seems that it is simply the wiki documentation that is wrong here.
> 
> I didn't check the wiki, just got confused by the source.  Please go 
> ahead and fix the wiki if there's something wrong there.

done, in
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/RunningTests/Adding
If you rename compiler_debuggeed() as well (and not just the
test-runner-internal GhcDebugged), make sure to update that page as
well.

Greetings,
Joachim

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