The build is broken (Solaris/x86, FreeBSD/{i386,amd64})

Herbert Valerio Riedel hvr at gnu.org
Tue Apr 15 07:48:32 UTC 2014



On 2014-04-15 at 06:52:42 +0200, Jan Stolarek wrote:
>> I think Simon Marlow is even more conservative, and
>> does his validate builds in a separate tree so he catches missing
>> files.

> I thought everyone is doing that.

Btw, using such a workflow[1] is actually almost a necessity if you want to
continue working on GHC while a longish validate is running in the
background... otherwise you're blocked till validate completes.


Cheers,
  hvr

 [1]: like e.g. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git#Workflowwithvalidate
      (fwiw, I meant to write up a variant not relying on sync-all)



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