Major commit to the constraint solver

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Aha.  Yes, I did click on one of those links, and my browser was fine: but the displayed log was simply truncated at 10,000 lines, which removed all the interesting stuff. 

Moving the tip to the top, just under "What does it do?", and giving a bit more navigation info, would be a good plan.

thanks

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
|  Joachim Breitner
|  Sent: 04 November 2014 08:55
|  To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
|  Subject: Re: Major commit to the constraint solver
|  
|  Hi,
|  
|  
|  Am Dienstag, den 04.11.2014, 08:44 +0000 schrieb Simon Peyton Jones:
|  > That's great; I didn't realise that.
|  >
|  > How can I navigate to the build log.  I went to
|  > https://travis-ci.org/ghc/ghc/builds
|  > clicked on "Branch summary", found my branch, clicked on the link
|  for
|  > "617" but it didn't show me the build log that you did.  (It did
|  have
|  > a red button saying "617 failed".
|  
|  We build everything twice, once with -DDEBUG and once without.
|  Therefore, at the bottom of the page you were looking at (presumably
|  https://travis-ci.org/ghc/ghc/builds/39856856),
|  there are two links named 617.1 and 617.2. These take you to the build
|  log, e.g. https://travis-ci.org/ghc/ghc/jobs/39856857
|  
|  But: Travis tries to prettify the logs using plenty of JavaScript,
|  this will easily bring your browser to its knees. So the trick is:
|  After following the link, and while the page is loading, in the top
|  right corner look for the square with the three horizontal lines. This
|  link takes to to a text-only view of the logs, e.g.
|  https://s3.amazonaws.com/archive.travis-ci.org/jobs/39856857/log.txt
|  
|  (The latter is mentioned on
|  https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Travis, but maybe not very
|  visible. I could add a paragraph describing the steps to reach the
|  logs.)
|  
|  By the way, you can usually find your branch on the Build History
|  (https://travis-ci.org/ghc/ghc/builds) directly, if it has been built
|  recently. The column „Commit“ mentions the branch its on.
|  
|  Greetings,
|  Joachim
|  
|  
|  
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