testsuite not in GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball ?

[George Colpitts]

Thanks for the clarification. I'm all set.

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:58 AM David Feuer <david at well-typed.com> wrote:

> That's not really too surprising to me. The test suite is primarily
> intended for GHC developers, and at present only works reliably when GHC is
> compiled for validation. Including it in the distribution would force users
> who had no use for it to pay for it anyway.
>
>
>
> David Feuer
> Well-Typed, LLP
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
> Date: 4/6/17 9:39 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: David Feuer <david at well-typed.com>, Jens Petersen <
> juhpetersen at gmail.com>, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>
> Cc: GHC developers <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
> Subject: Re: testsuite not in GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball ?
>
> Thanks Brandon
>
> After downloading the source tarball and doing a build successfully I
> wanted to run the testsuite.
>
> You write
>
>    - As far as I know, the test suite is normally run from ghc/testsuite.
>
> That directory doesn't exist for me:
>
>
>    -  pwd
>    - /Users/gcolpitts/Downloads/ghc-8.2.0.20170404/ghc
>    - bash-3.2$ ls testsuite
>    - ls: testsuite: No such file or directory
>    - bash-3.2$
>
>
> so I guess the source tarball doesn't contain it and those who do a build
> can't test their build with the testsuite. I was hoping I could do that.
>
> I didn't think the libffi directories were the right place to run from but
> they were only testsuite directories that the find command gave me.
>
> Thanks again
> George
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:10 AM David Feuer <david at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure why you're trying to run things from the libffi directory. As
> far as I know, the test suite is normally run from ghc/testsuite.
>
>
>
> David Feuer
> Well-Typed, LLP
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
> Date: 4/5/17 9:17 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Jens Petersen <juhpetersen at gmail.com>, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>
>
> Cc: GHC developers <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
> Subject: Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability
>
> I'd like to run the testsuite on macOS but I am having trouble following
> the documentation at
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/RunningTests/Running
>
> Do I need to download something in addition to the source tarball or am I
> making some mistake?
>
> Following is what I tried:
>
>  pwd
> /Users/gcolpitts/Downloads/ghc-8.2.0.20170404/libffi
> # doc says: The commands on this page can all be executed from the
> testsuite directory.
> bash-3.2$ find . -name testsuite
> ./libffi/build/testsuite
> ./libffi/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/testsuite
> bash-3.2$ pushd libffi/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/testsuite
> ~/Downloads/ghc-8.2.0.20170404/libffi/build/x86_64-apple-darwin/testsuite
> ~/Downloads/ghc-8.2.0.20170404
> bash-3.2$ make test
> make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
> bash-3.2$ popd
> ~/Downloads/ghc-8.2.0.20170404
> bash-3.2$ pushd libffi/build/testsuite
> ~/Downloads/ghc-8.2.0.20170404/libffi/build/testsuite
> ~/Downloads/ghc-8.2.0.20170404
> bash-3.2$ make test
> make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
> bash-3.2$ popd
> ~/Downloads/ghc-8.2.0.20170404
> bash-3.2$ make test
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C testsuite/tests
> CLEANUP=1 SUMMARY_FILE=../../testsuite_summary.txt
> make: *** testsuite/tests: No such file or directory.  Stop.
> make: *** [test] Error 2
>
> Thanks
> George
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:43 PM Jens Petersen <juhpetersen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> On 4 April 2017 at 13:21, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
> I am happy to announce the release of the 8.2.1-rc1 source distribution
> to binary packagers.
>
>
> It seems to build okay for me on Fedora 26 so far.
>
> But the testsuite completely failed in timeout: see
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13534
>
> Cheers, Jens
>
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