[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.1 release candidate 2

[George Colpitts]

Yes, I agree, will file a bug this evening.

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:26 AM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:

> George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Ben
> >
> > I built from source and ran the tests on my Mac and found some
> > problems. I'm not sure if the failing tests have been ran successfully
> > by others on this platform. I did "make slowtest". Maybe the problem
> > only happens on my machine.
> >
> Currently Harbormaster only runs `make test`, not `make slowtest`.
> Consequently, `slowtest` is generally rather broken, even on Linux.
> Every once in a while I look at it and try to pare down the failures,
> but it's an up-hill battle.
>
> > I'm new to running the testsuite and not sure how the sleep settings on
> my
> > computer affect long running computations.
> >
> >    - If I want to run a long running test such as "make slowtest"
> overnight
> >    will my computer go to sleep preventing the test from running? i.e.
> should
> >    I invoke it with something like "caffeinate -i make slowtest" ?
> >
> That sounds right to me.
>
> > I almost didn't run the tests assuming they had been run as part of the
> > release process but then I guessed that maybe slowtest had not been run.
> It
> > would be a pain but would it be worth documenting which tests had been
> run
> > on which platforms?
> >
> I currently don't validate the binary distribution tarballs. Instead I
> judge validation state from Harbormaster's testing of the ghc-8.2
> branch.
>
> Over the summer we intend on revamping our CI infrastructure, which
> should make it easier to do nightly runs of slowtest (and perhaps
> provide nightly or even per-commit binary distributions).
>
> > I assume I should file a bug for the following?
> >
> That would be great. I had a quick look at this and it looks quite
> likely that the simplifier is looping: even -fsimpl-tick-factor=1000
> doesn't succeed. This looks like a real regression.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
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