Validate broken on Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion

[Christiaan Baaij]

Raised as issue on github: https://github.com/haskell/primitive/issues/4

On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:17 AM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Is this pushed?
> 
> Edward
> 
> Excerpts from Christiaan Baaij's message of 2013-11-15 00:04:30 -0800:
>> I'm still puzzled as to how validate failed on snow leopard, but is working correctly on my mountain lion machine after fixing the warning in the primitive package.
>> Ben: does validate go through on your machine after patching the primitive package?
>> 
>> Here are my results for 'validate --slow':
>> 
>> OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Thu Nov 14 14:32:18 2013 CET
>> 4:15:58 spent to go through
>>    3818 total tests, which gave rise to
>>   14934 test cases, of which
>>    3146 were skipped
>> 
>>     145 had missing libraries
>>   11465 expected passes
>>     137 expected failures
>> 
>>       0 caused framework failures
>>       5 unexpected passes
>>      36 unexpected failures
>> 
>> Unexpected passes:
>>   codeGen/should_run           cgrun071 (optllvm)
>>   ghci/linking                 T3333 (normal)
>>   rename/should_compile/T3103  T3103 (hpc,optasm,optllvm)
>> 
>> Unexpected failures:
>>   ../../libraries/unix/tests  signals004 [bad exit code] (threaded2)
>>   concurrent/should_run       conc012 [bad exit code] (ghci)
>>   driver                      static001 [bad stderr] (normal)
>>   gadt                        type-rep [exit code non-0] (hpc,optasm,threaded2,dyn,optllvm)
>>   ghc-api/apirecomp001        apirecomp001 [bad stderr] (normal)
>>   lib/integer                 integerConstantFolding [bad stderr] (normal)
>>   perf/compiler               T3064 [stat not good enough] (normal)
>>   perf/compiler               T3294 [stderr mismatch] (normal)
>>   perf/compiler               T4801 [stat too good] (normal)
>>   perf/compiler               T5642 [stat not good enough] (normal)
>>   perf/haddock                haddock.Cabal [stat not good enough] (normal)
>>   perf/haddock                haddock.compiler [stat not good enough] (normal)
>>   perf/space_leaks            space_leak_001 [stat too good] (hpc,optasm,dyn,optllvm)
>>   polykinds                   T6068 [bad stderr] (ghci)
>>   rts                         T7919 [exit code non-0] (normal,hpc,optasm,threaded1,threaded2,optllvm)
>>   th/TH_import_loop           TH_import_loop [bad stdout or stderr] (ghci)
>>   typecheck/should_run        T7861 [bad stderr] (normal,hpc,optasm,threaded1,threaded2,dyn,optllvm)
>>   typecheck/should_run        T7861 [bad stdout or stderr] (ghci)
>> 
>> On Nov 14, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Christiaan Baaij <christiaan.baaij at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> After fixing the warning in the C-code of the primitive package, validate (including dph tests) seems to be working for me:
>>> 
>>> OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Thu Nov 14 11:03:26 2013 CET
>>> 0:46:34 spent to go through
>>>   3818 total tests, which gave rise to
>>>  14930 test cases, of which
>>>  11445 were skipped
>>> 
>>>     28 had missing libraries
>>>   3394 expected passes
>>>     58 expected failures
>>> 
>>>      0 caused framework failures
>>>      1 unexpected passes
>>>      4 unexpected failures
>>> 
>>> Unexpected passes:
>>>  ghci/linking  T3333 (normal)
>>> 
>>> Unexpected failures:
>>>  driver         static001 [bad stderr] (normal)
>>>  driver/T3007   T3007 [bad exit code] (normal)
>>>  perf/compiler  T3064 [stat not good enough] (normal)
>>>  perf/compiler  T4801 [stat too good] (normal)
>>> 
>>> I'll try again with a 'make maintainer-clean', include profiling libs, and do a ./validate --slow.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Nov 14, 2013, at 5:23 AM, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Ben has an excellent point: 
>>>> 
>>>> if things are broken on mac, lets fix it!  Especially since we should be hitting RC status shortly.... any breakages should be smashed ASAP.
>>>> 
>>>> This does raise a point I hope we'll address more aggressively after the 7.8 release, namely trying to keep ghc less broken by default! GHC being really really really broken between releases is probably the single HUGEST barrier to more people getting involved in helping GHC dev. And I think thats a huge problem we need to take more seriously. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Ben Lippmeier <benl at ouroborus.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 13/11/2013, at 8:02 PM, Christiaan Baaij wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Does validate work for the DPH packages on Linux?
>>>> 
>>>> "sh validate" runs fine on my Linux machine, but neither of my Macs.
>>>> 
>>>> I can also run the dph tests manually on Linux, and they work fine.
>>>> 
>>>> Ben.
>>>> 
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