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

[Christiaan Baaij]

The testsuite results are here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7836630/

On Jul 22, 2014, at 2:11 PM, Christiaan Baaij <christiaan.baaij at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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