Linker.c broken

[Phyx]

I don't think you can do it in validate.mk,

Only
https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/testsuite/driver/runtests.py#L144
here as far as I know. I also constantly have to watch out I don't commit
it though

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016, 13:56 Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Let’s re-enable it.   Or: how can I selectively re-enable it for in my
> validate.mk?
>
>
>
> *From:* ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] *On Behalf Of *Phyx
> *Sent:* 04 July 2016 13:05
> *To:* Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs at mega-nerd.com>; ghc-devs <
> ghc-devs at haskell.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Linker.c broken
>
>
>
> There used to be a bug in the msys2 runtime which made certain processes
> hang on exit in a non deterministic way.
>
> So the parallel runs was disabled. I was looking into it but haven't been
> able to reproduce it at all in months now since either upgrading msys2 or
> Windows (to Windows 10).
>
> We have a ticket with more information on it and what I found back then,
> but haven't been able to progress.
>
> It might be that they've just fixed it in the mean time.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016, 12:58 Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs at mega-nerd.com>
> wrote:
>
> Phyx wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Oh dear, why is that?
>
> Erik
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