Unreliability of the build system

[Ian Lynagh]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:10:29PM +0200, Jan Stolarek wrote:
> > This has never happened to me.  I can't even guess why it might happen to
> > you.
> Looking through the validation log I see that tests fail with this error message:
> 
> Actual stderr output differs from expected:
> --- /dev/null	2013-05-14 15:38:10.771000000 +0200
> +++ ../../libraries/base/tests/IO/T3307.run.stderr	2013-05-15 09:21:45.695049002 +0200
> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> +WARNING: cache is out of date: /dane/uczelnia/projekty/ghc-validate/bindisttest/install   
> dir/lib/ghc-7.7.20130514/package.conf.d/package.cache
> +  use 'ghc-pkg recache' to fix.
> *** unexpected failure for T3307(normal)
> 
> Any ideas why this happens?

The testsuite does check whether the package.cache timestamp changed
while running a test. If it did then you'll get a
    Package cache timestamps do not match: [...]
framework failure. Do you know whether that happened?

Otherwise, looking at why the package.cache is out of date, along with
what tests were run around the time that it happened, might give a clue
as to what went wrong.


Thanks
Ian