Unexpected failures on Travis

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 18.10.2013, 14:46 -0400 schrieb Richard Eisenberg:
> The TH_Roles tests both use `runIO` inside of a TH splice to spit out
> some stuff. It seems (even on my machine) that when output is
> redirected, the result of a `runIO` is suppressed. For example, when I
> compile
> 
> > {-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
> > module Scratch where
> > 
> > import Language.Haskell.TH
> > 
> > $( do runIO $ putStrLn "hi there"
> >       return [] )
> > 
> I get an output include "hi there" when I run ghc normally, but
> 
> prompt> ghc -c Scratch.hs >stdout.txt
> 
> leaves me with no output to my terminal, and a stdout.txt that lists
> only the loaded libraries, no "hi there".
> 
> I would guess that the problem on Travis is closely related. Does
> anyone know more about this output suppression?

the docs for runIO say
        Note: for various murky reasons, stdout and stderr handles are
        not necesarily flushed when the compiler finishes running, so
        you should flush them yourself. 
so I guess that should be done in the tests, for greater
reproducibility. I just added that (522f81d), let’s see if it helps with
travis.

Greetings,
Joachim

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