Validate fails: Var/Type length mismatch: [] [s{tv a15I} [tv]]

Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatchki at gmail.com
Sat Jun 1 00:28:06 CEST 2013


Where would I find the test log?  I just run `validate` without any special
parameters in the root directory of GHC.



On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Ian Lynagh <ian at well-typed.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:14:23AM -0700, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
> >
> > So it seems that there is something that keeps changing... I wonder if it
> > might be some missing dependency, so when you run things in parallel
> > sometimes they fail?
>
> There are no dependencies in the testsuite. You're either seeing:
> * a bug in a test, which means it is affecting something outside of the
> test
> * a bug in a test, which causes it to inconsistently fail
> * some problem with your machine, e.g. dodgy RAM
> (from most to least likely).
>
> Note that in the first case it is not necessarily the failing test that
> is broken.
>
> The testlog may give more clues as to what is going wrong.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian
> --
> Ian Lynagh, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
>
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