OSX Test Failures

[Ben Gamari]

Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering at gmail.com> writes:

> Occasionally a do a full validate on OSX, there are usually some tests
> which fail but not on other systems. I usually don't report these
> failures as there are always some and they are usually do to do with
> parts of the compiler I don't know anything about.
>
> However, on https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2485 Richard (Fung) and
> Ben were discussing these failures which I have also seen so it seems
> I would have wasted less time if I had reported these somewhere.
>
> What is the expectation for OSX? Should the test suite be entirely
> clean? Should I create issues when some of the tests get broken?
>
Indeed it should always build. Really OS X is Tier 1 platform and as
such should have a build bot. I'm trying to get Futurice's OS X machine
setup as a Harbormaster node but technology has a way of fighting back.

Regardless, it would be quite helpful if you could file a bug
documenting these. By the way, do you recall when you started seeing
these failures?

Cheers,

- Ben
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