Call for help on testing integer-gmp2 on non-Linux archs

[Christiaan Baaij]

Starting a build on my MAC:

OS: 10.8.5
XCode: XCode 4 CLI-only (so _no_ full Xcode, that is, xcode-select fails)
GCC: i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
GHC: 7.8.3

On Jul 22, 2014, at 2:02 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:

> On 2014-07-22 at 13:33:04 +0200, Niklas Larsson wrote:
>> I can test on Windows.
> 
> great! Are you using the 32bit or 64bit compiler?
> 
> All you'd need to do is 'git checkout' the wip/T9281 branch, add the line
> 
>  INTEGER_LIBRARY=integer-gmp2
> 
> at the end of mk/build.mk (and 'BuildFlavour=quick' should suffice) and
> try to build GHC with that. If you end up with a working stage2
> compiler, and 'inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --interactive' reports loading the
> package 'integer-gmp2' then everything went better than expected :)
> 
> Then running the testsuite via
> 
>  cd testsuite/ && make WAY=normal SKIP_PERF_TESTS=YES 
> 
> should only fail with a few testcases due to the strings "integer-gmp2"
> vs. "integer-gmp" being different in the output.
> 
> Thanks,,
>  hvr
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