Linker.c broken

[Phyx]

I can build and validate in about an hour myself using 9 jobs on a core i7.
If I revert the change in the testsuite preventing parallel runs for
Windows.

Tamar

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016, 12:26 Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:

> "Boespflug, Mathieu" <m at tweag.io> writes:
>
> > On 4 July 2016 at 12:36, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
> >> Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> I will fix it, sorry about this.  Unfortunately I can't really add a
> >>> Windows validate into my workflow because it would mean rebooting my
> laptop
> >>> into Windows and not doing anything else for several hours.  We need
> some
> >>> CI support for Windows - Ben/Austin any thoughts on this?
> >>>
> >> I agree; this would be great. I have a Windows machine which I'd be
> >> happy setup as a builder although I'm afraid it's behind NAT, so
> >> integration with Harbormaster may require some tunneling.
> >
> > Just a suggestion - the easiest and most reliable would probably be to
> > simply use Appveyor for this. They offer a hosted and fully managed CI
> > service very similar to Travis CI - only difference being it runs
> > tests on Windows boxes. And just like Travis CI, it's free!
> >
> > The advantage of a hosted CI service is that no one except Appveyor
> > need to worry about keeping the build bot highly available.
> >
> > Only downside is their machines in the free tier can be a bit slow.
> > But that's a problem that can be iterated on as the need arises.
> >
> I've noticed that several of the core libraries rely on Appveyor with
> good results. However, I had assumed that GHC would exceed the maximum
> build time of their free tier since the build takes a few hours on my
> Windows box. It seems that Appveyor has a one-hour build duration limit,
> similar to Travis.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
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