Nightlies

[Austin Seipp]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:
>  * Profiling could break. Or profiling GHC (but not other smaller
> things) could break.
>  * Dynamic linking could break.
>  * Rarer configurations could break but only for some cases, e.g.
> threaded + profiling. Or LLVM + Profiling, or LLVM + dynamic linking,
> etc etc.
>  * Static linking for GHCi could break on platforms that now use
> dynamic linking by default (as we saw happen when I broke it.)
>  * GHC may only expose certain faulty behavior at certain optimization
> levels (both in bootstrapping itself and in the tests - so maybe
> ./validate looks mostly OK, but -O2 is not.)
>  * Bootstrapping the build with different compilers may break (i.e. an
> unintentional backwards incompatible change is introduced in the
> stage1 build)
>  * Any of these could theoretically break depending on things like the
> host platform.
>  * The testsuite runs 'fast' by default. It would need to run slowly
> to potentially uncover more problems, but this greatly increases the
> runtime.

Disregard all this, upon closer inspection I see you only wanted
./validate anyway.* :)

* But it still will hurt more when you add in low-powered builders.

-- 
Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/