Strange failures in directory/

[Edward Z. Yang]

No idea. As a point of comparison, when I do the same procedure,
getDirContents001 only shows up once.

Edward

Excerpts from Simon Peyton Jones's message of 2015-01-22 04:09:47 -0800:
> I'm getting these validate failures from "sh validate -fast":
> 
> 
> Unexpected failures:
> 
>    ../../libraries/directory/tests  getHomeDirectory001 [exit code non-0] (normal)
>       .. and about 20 more similar complaints ...
> 
> The failure report is this:
> 
> Compile failed (status 256) errors were:
> 
> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( getHomeDirectory001.hs, getHomeDirectory001.o )
> 
> *** unexpected failure for getHomeDirectory001(normal)
> 
> BUT if I "cd libraries/directory/tests", and say "make TEST=getDirContents001", I get no failures.
> 
> Here is a clue.  If I "cd testsuite/tests" and say "make TEST=getDirContents001", I get this:
> 
> 
> =====> getHomeDirectory001(normal) 4288 of 4405 [0, 0, 13]
> 
> cd ../../libraries/directory/tests && '/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-2/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' -fforce-recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-warn-tabs -fno-ghci-history -o getHomeDirectory001 getHomeDirectory001.hs    >getHomeDirectory001.comp.stderr 2>&1
> 
> cd ../../libraries/directory/tests && ./getHomeDirectory001    </dev/null >getHomeDirectory001.run.stdout 2>getHomeDirectory001.run.stderr
> 
> =====> getHomeDirectory001(normal) 4301 of 4405 [0, 0, 13]
> 
> cd ../../libraries/directory/tests && '/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-2/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2' -fforce-recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-warn-tabs -fno-ghci-history -o getHomeDirectory001 getHomeDirectory001.hs    >getHomeDirectory001.comp.stderr 2>&1
> 
> cd ../../libraries/directory/tests && ./getHomeDirectory001    </dev/null >getHomeDirectory001.run.stdout 2>getHomeDirectory001.run.stderr
> 
> Note that it gets compiled TWICE.  This is likely to cause problems when multi-threading.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Simon