Any ways to test a GHC build against large set of packages (including test suites)?

[Ömer Sinan Ağacan]

Ah, I now realize that that command is supposed to print that output. I'll
continue following the steps and keep you updated if I get stuck again.

Ömer

Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>, 9 Ağu 2018 Per, 13:20
tarihinde şunu yazdı:
>
> Hi Manuel,
>
> I'm trying stackage-head. I'm following the steps for the scheduled build in
> .circleci/config.yml. So far steps I took:
>
> - Installed ghc-head (from [1]) to ~/ghc-head
> - Installed stackage-build-plan, stackage-curator and stackage-head (with
>   -fdev) from git repos, using stack.
> - export BUILD_PLAN=nightly-2018-07-30 (from config.yml)
> - curl https://ghc-artifacts.s3.amazonaws.com/nightly/validate-x86_64-linux/latest/metadata.json
> --output metadata.json
> - curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fpco/stackage-nightly/master/$BUILD_PLAN.yaml
> --output $BUILD_PLAN.yaml
>
> Now I'm doing
>
> - ./.local/bin/stackage-head already-seen --target $BUILD_PLAN
> --ghc-metadata metadata.json --outdir build-reports
>
> but it's failing with
>
>     The combination of target and commit is new to me
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> [1]: https://ghc-artifacts.s3.amazonaws.com/nightly/validate-x86_64-linux/latest/bindist.tar.xz
>
> Ömer
>
> Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>, 7 Ağu 2018 Sal, 23:28
> tarihinde şunu yazdı:
> >
> > Thanks for both suggestions. I'll try both and see which one works better.
> >
> > Ömer
> >
> > Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak at justtesting.org>, 7 Ağu 2018 Sal, 18:15
> > tarihinde şunu yazdı:
> > >
> > > Hi Ömer,
> > >
> > > This is exactly the motivation for the Stackage HEAD works that we have pushed at Tweag I/O in the context of the GHC DevOps group. Have a look at
> > >
> > >   https://github.com/tweag/stackage-head
> > >
> > > and also the blog post from when the first version went live:
> > >
> > >   https://www.tweag.io/posts/2018-04-17-stackage-head-is-live.html
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Manuel
> > >
> > > > Am 06.08.2018 um 09:40 schrieb Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to test some GHC builds + some compile and runtime flag combinations
> > > > against a large set of packages by building them and running test suites. For
> > > > this I need
> > > >
> > > > - A set of packages that are known to work with latest GHC
> > > > - A way to build them and run their test suites (if I could specify compile and
> > > >  runtime flags that'd be even better)
> > > >
> > > > I think stackage can serve as (1) but I don't know how to do (2). Can anyone
> > > > point me to the right direction? I vaguely remember some nix-based solution for
> > > > this that was being discussed on the IRC channel, but can't recall any details.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Ömer
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