Testsuite cleaning

[Ömer Sinan Ağacan]

I also realized this after a rebase I did yesterday. Should be a recent thing.

2016-06-24 7:58 GMT+00:00 Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
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> Thomas
>
> During debugging I often compile a single test program
>
>             ghc -c T1969.hs
>
> But the new testsuite setup doesn’t remove .hi and .o files before running a
> test, so
>
>             make TEST=T1969
>
> says
>
> bytes allocated value is too low:
>
> …
>
>     Deviation   T1969(normal) bytes allocated:     -95.2 %
>
> Reason?  Compilation was not required!
>
> Non-perf tests fail in the same way
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> +compilation IS NOT required
>
> *** unexpected failure for T11480b(normal)
>
> I’m sure this didn’t use to happen.
>
> It’s not fatal, because can manually remove those .o files, but it’s a bit
> of a nuisance.  Might it be easy to restore the old behaviour?
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
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