Shake fails test with GHC 7.10 RC3

Neil Mitchell ndmitchell at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 08:36:39 UTC 2015


I've created a ticket at: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10176

Now I know what I'm looking for, I'll aim to track down a minimal
example over nap time (about 5 hours from now).

Thanks, Neil


On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> A simple test case should be as simple as checkout Shake
> (https://github.com/ndmitchell/shake.git), cabal build as necessary
> then cabal test. A shorter (and fractionally more robust) test would
> be "shake-test oracle test", using the Cabal test suite.
>
> Thanks, Neil
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel
> <hvriedel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-03-21 at 07:56:32 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> 3) I tested with GHC RC1 and GHC RC2, both of which were fine. The fact no
>>> one else hit this with RC2 might just be because its a very recent
>>> regression.
>>
>> We -- and by that I don't mean myself... :) -- could git-bisect between
>> RC2 and RC3 here (semi-)automatically (i.e. maybe unattended if it's
>> scriptable) if your test-case (even if it's not minimal) reliably
>> triggers the bug...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   hvr


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